Note 189 — Chapter X · FIBRES OR SILKEN MATERIAL OF THE PINNA.

In this passage piscari is rather fancifully opposed to pangere and serere. The former of these two terms (pangere) refers to tunics of wool, which was pacta or pexa; the latter to tunics of cotton and flax, which were sata. The epithet plautiores, (etymologically allied to latiores, and to πλατὺς,) well describes the large size and expanded form of the Pinna.