POLYMITA. These were Works of several Threads and several Colours. ‘Tis said in Genesis,1 that Jacob made his Son Joseph a Coat of divers Colours, tunicam polymitam. The Hebrew has it a Coat of Passim. And the same Text makes use of a 2 Sam. xiii. 18.like Expression, to denote the particular kind of the Robe of Thamar the Daughter of David. ‘Tis thought that Passim signifies different Colours, variegated Stripes, tunicam fasciatam, such as the eastern People still wear. St. Jerome puts sometimes into the Latin Text of the Scripture,2 opere polymito instead of opere polymitario. The Hebrew Letter is opere cogitantis, a Ezekiel xxviii. 24. Polymitaria.Work of Tapestry. Ezekiel makes use of the Term Polymito; or rather St. Jerome in his Translation of Ezekiel, has used this Word to express the Hebrew Meshi, which the Rabbins and several Interpreters explain by Silk. In another Place of the same Ezek. xvi. 10, 13. MeshiProphet, St. Jerome has translated Rakamah, which signifies Works of Embroidery, by Polimitarius.
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