The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances

Note 538 — Chapter I · FLAX.

Reading edition

Erasmus makes the following remarks on the words “Atrebatum et Laodiceæ:”

“Apparet ex his regionibus candidissima ac subtilissima linea mitti solere. Nunc hujus laudis principatus, si tamen ea laus, penes meos Hollandos est. Quanquam et Atrebates in Belgis haud ita procul a nobis absunt.”