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The dress wherewith Minerva's statues are adorned, and her Aegis,
were derived by the Greeks from the women of Libya. For, except
that the garments of the Libyan women are of leather, and their
fringes made of leathern thongs instead of serpents, in all else the
dress of both is exactly alike. The name too itself shows that the
mode of dressing the Pallas-statues came from Libya. For the
Libyan women wear over their dress stript of the hair, fringed at
their edges, and coloured with vermilion; and from these goat-skins
the Greeks get their word Aegis (goat-harness). I think for my
part that the loud cries uttered in our sacred rites came also from
thence; for the Libyan women are greatly given to such cries and utter
them very sweetly. Likewise the Greeks learnt from the Libyans to
yoke four horses to a chariot.
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