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KOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
The Coan cloth or garments, mentioned by various authors, but
most frequently by the Latin poets of the Augustan Age. From their expressions
we learn that it had a great degree of transparency, that it was remarkably fine,
that it was chiefly worn by women of loose reputation, and that it was sometimes
dyed purple \ and enriched with stripes of gold. It has been supposed to have
been made of silk, because in Cos silk was spun and woven at an early period,
so as to obtain a high celebrity.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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