. 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. osom (Apoll. Rhod. iii. 867. Stro-phium) ; and the epithet ^uirpos(Callim. Dia?i. 14.), to designate ayoung woman who has not arrivedat her full development or at mar-riageable years ; i. e. who did not yetrequire the zona, or the the military belt worn roundthe waist, at the bottom of the cuir
. 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. osom (Apoll. Rhod. iii. 867. Stro-phium) ; and the epithet ^uirpos(Callim. Dia?i. 14.), to designate ayoung woman who has not arrivedat her full development or at mar-riageable years ; i. e. who did not yetrequire the zona, or the the military belt worn roundthe waist, at the bottom of the cuirass,as a protection to the belly, was calledby the same name. Horn. //. Cingulum, 4. 2. In accordance with the preced-ing definition of a scarf with ties atthe extremity to fasten it, the samename was given by the writers, bothof Greece and Italy, to a particularkind of covering for the head, wornby the natives of Persia, Arabia,Asia Minor, and by the women ofGreece, arranged so as to envelopethe whole of the head from the fore-head to the nape of the neck, thesides of the face, and the chin, underwhich it passed ; whence the personwho wears it is said to be veiled init (mitra velatus. Claud, de i. 156.), as characteristicallydisplayed by the annexed example,. representing a Persian mitra, wornby one of the followers of Darius, inthe large mosaic at Pompeii. TheAsiatic mitra, worn bv the Phry-3 i 426 MITRA. MODIOLUS. gians and Amazons, was a cloth cap,which covered the head as completelyas the preceding, and was tied bystrings or lappets under the chin(Isidor. Orig. xix. 31. 4. Serv. adVirg. 2En. iv. 216. ix. 616.), in themanner shown by the annexed ex-ample, representing the head of
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