Histories

Listen to something else about the Colchians, in which they are like the Egyptians: they and the Egyptians alone work linen and have the same way of working it, a way peculiar to themselves; and they are alike in all their way of life, and in their speech. Linen has two names: the Colchian kind is called by the Greeks Sardonian [*](There seems to be no reason for connecting Colchian linen with +Sardinia [9,40] (region), Italy, Europe Sardinia (as *sardwniko/n would imply). The Colchian word may have had a similar sound.) ; that which comes from Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt is called Egyptian.