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So much may be said, that we may not appear to have left out any
article of the dress of the Egyptians. But we need only keep to those which
the situation of the place and the customs of the district permit. For the
severity of the winter does not allow us to be satisfied with slippers
or tunics or a single frock; and the covering of tiny hoods or the wearing
of a sheepskin would afford a subject for derision instead of edifying the
spectators. Wherefore we hold that we ought to introduce only those things
which we have described above, and which are adapted to the humble
character of our profession and the nature of the climate, that the chief
thing about our dress maybe not the novelty of the garb, which might give
some offence to men of the world, but its honourable simplicity.
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