shown themselves more studious in the morning at the lectures
and debates concerning wisdom and arms. And this is held
to be one of the most distinguished honors. For six days they
ordain to sing with music at table. Only a few, however, sing;
or there is one voice accompanying the lute and one for each
other instrument. And when all alike in service join their
hands, nothing is found to be wanting. The old men placed
at the head of the cooking business and of the refectories of the
servants praise the cleanliness of the streets, the houses, the ves-
sels, the garments, the workshops, and the warehouses.

They wear white under-garments to which adheres a cover-
ing, which is at once coat and legging, without wrinkles. The
borders of the fastenings are furnished with globular buttons,
extended round and caught up here and there by chains. The
coverings of the legs descend to the shoes and are continued
even to the heels. Then they cover the feet with large socks,
or, as it were, half-buskins fastened by buckles, over which they
wear a half-boot, and besides, as I have already said, they are
clothed with a toga. And so aptly fitting are the garments,
that when the toga is destroyed, the different parts of the whole
body are straightway discerned, no part being concealed. They
change their clothes for different ones four times in the year,
that is when the sun enters respectively the constellations Aries,
Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, and according to the circum-
stances and necessity as decided by the officer of health. The
keepers of clothes for the different rings are wont to distribute
them, and it is marvellous that they have at the same time as
many garments as there is need for, some heavy and some
slight, according to the weather. They all use white clothing,