18. The catalogue of female finery which follows produces considerable
satirical effect by mere enumeration. So Juvenal will fill
a line or two, as in Sat. 111. 76, 77, on the various professions of the
“Graeculus esuriens”; or Plautus, Epidicus, v. 40 fall, on this
subject. It is not surprising if some of the Hebrew terms are obscure
and the correspondence of the Greek inexact; actually, the Heb. list
contains 21 and the Greek 23 articles. It is scarcely necessary to
examine all these. Prof. Skinner points out that many of the orna-
ments were used as charms. Delitzsch mentions some monographs
on the subject. τοῦ αὐτόν καὶ τοὺς κόσμους αὐτῶν καὶ] Not in the Heb.;
τοῦ ἱματισμοῦ αὐτῶν only, B. Cyp. De Ηabitu Virginum, xiii., quotes
this passage, and has gloriam vestis illarum at omamenta eamm,
but the correspondence in the later verses with mm. is not apparently
exact. μηνίσκους] See Judg. viii. 21, and 26 in B. Moon-shaped
perhaps in series, graduated in size; something similar may be seen,
in brass, on heavy draught-horses at the present day, and in pictures
of the Indians who formerly inhabited Florida and Georgia, the
Seminoles and Cherokees. 20. May] A reads σύνεσιν, inadvertently dropping a letter.
σύνθεσις was used of the lounging dress of the Romans under the late

 
Republic and Empire; also for a whole wardrobe or stock of articles.
See Βecker's Gallus, Excursus ι. sc. viii.; Statius, Silv. IV. 9, 44
Martial, Epig. Iv. 46; and for the former sense, Mart. Ep. 11. 46, &c. 22. διαφανῆ Λακωνικὰ] So διαφανῆ χιτωνία, Aristoph. Lysist. 48.
Laconia, celebrated for its purples, produced delicate gauzes also;
but the translator's phrase here can hardly be other than an ana-
chronism.