. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. in two tunics, very distinctly marked,the nder one with long sleeves, anda skirt which reaches half-way be-tween the knee and ankle ; the outerone with short sleeves, and a skirtwhich terminates at the middle of thethigh, and a girdle round the waistwhich compresses both. But the or-dinary kind of tunic worn
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. in two tunics, very distinctly marked,the nder one with long sleeves, anda skirt which reaches half-way be-tween the knee and ankle ; the outerone with short sleeves, and a skirtwhich terminates at the middle of thethigh, and a girdle round the waistwhich compresses both. But the or-dinary kind of tunic worn next theskin by women was made with shortsleeves, and rather loose round theneck, very much like a modern che-mise, as shown by the annexed exam-. ple, from a Roman bas-relief, whichmay be compared with the figure in- troduced s. Indutus, representing aGreek female taking off her chemise,from a fictile vase. 10. Tunica recta. See Recta. 11. Tunica angusticlavia. SeeClavus, 9. 12. Tunica laticlavia. See Cla-j vus, 8. ? 13. Tunica patagiata. See Pata- GIUM. 14. Tunica palmata. A floweredtunic worn with the toga picta ( 7. xxx. 15.) ; supposed to havebeen ornamented with embroideryrepresenting palm branches, as it wasthe one worn by a general at histriumph. 15. Tunica picta. An embroideredtunic worn by the Salii. Liv. i. 20. 16. Tunica asema. A plain tunicwithout any ornament upon it (Lam-prid. Alex. Sev. 33.); like any ofthose shown from Nos. 1. to 10. ; allthe rest, from 11. to 15., receivingtheir designations not from any pecu-liarity of form, but of the ornamentsinterwoven, embroidered, or sewedupon them. TUNICATUS (uovoXi™v, oloXl-t(»v). In a general sense, wearing atunic ; but the word is more com-monly opposed in
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