Note 501 — Chapter I · FLAX.
Reading edition
Ant. Jud. iii. 7. 1, 2. p. 112. ed. Hudson.
The shirt of the High Priest of the Jews was probably like that worn in the worship of Isis, which was of Byssus, but adorned with flowers, “Byssina, sed floridè depicta.” Apuleius, Met. l. xi.