. 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. hconstituted the characteristic featurein the attire of a Roman matron, asthe toga did in that of the male sex(Pet. Sat. 81. 5. Compare Cic. 18. though in the latter passagethe reading has been controverted).It was a tunic made very full, andsometimes with long sleeves; atothers with short ones, fast
. 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. hconstituted the characteristic featurein the attire of a Roman matron, asthe toga did in that of the male sex(Pet. Sat. 81. 5. Compare Cic. 18. though in the latter passagethe reading has been controverted).It was a tunic made very full, andsometimes with long sleeves; atothers with short ones, fastened downthe fleshy part of the arm with clasps,but put on as an indumentum ( B. 13.), over the chemise {tunicaintima), and fastened with a doublegirdle (succincta, Enn. ap. Non. ), one under the breast, and theother over the hips, so as to producean ample display of small irregularfolds (rugce, Mart. iii. 93.) when com-pressed by and drawn through itsligatures. Thusfar the stoladoes not ma-terially differfrom the outertunic usuallyworn by theRoman what con-stituted its dis-tinguishing fea-ture was an ap-pendage termedinstita, sewedon under thegirdle (subsuta, Hor. Sat i. 2. 29.)?and trailing behind, so as to cover theback half of the feet (medios pedes,,. 622 STOLA. STRAGULUM. Ov. A. Am. i. 32.), from the astragalsor ankle bones ((tabs, Hor. I c. 2. 99.), which it is now confidentlysuggested is exhibited by the longtrain (instita longa, Ov. ) so dis-tinctly visible behind the lower halfof the annexed figure, believed to re-present Veturia, the mother of Corio-lanus, from a fresco painting in theThermae of Titus. It is to be ob-served that neither lexicographersnor archaeologists have been able tospecify with certainty what the institareally was, though general assentis found to describe it as a sort offlounce sewed round the bottom of atunic in order to constitute a stola ;which opinion was adopted, doubt-fully however and undecidedly, inthe
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