A dictionary of Greek and Roman . e speculations of Servius {ad Aen. ix. 53,x. 14, xii. 206) and Plutarch (Q, R. p. 127, ) ; the former of whom supposes that he wasso called because it was necessary that his fathershould be alive, the latter that the name indicatedthat his father was living, and that he himself wasthe father of children. [W. R.] FIBULA (Trepcur],7repouis,Trepour]Tpis: iropirr],iirnropnis: tVcTTj), a brooch consisting of a pin(acus), and of a curved portion furnished with ahook (kAcis, Horn. Od. xviii. 293). The curvedportion was sometimes a circular ring
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . e speculations of Servius {ad Aen. ix. 53,x. 14, xii. 206) and Plutarch (Q, R. p. 127, ) ; the former of whom supposes that he wasso called because it was necessary that his fathershould be alive, the latter that the name indicatedthat his father was living, and that he himself wasthe father of children. [W. R.] FIBULA (Trepcur],7repouis,Trepour]Tpis: iropirr],iirnropnis: tVcTTj), a brooch consisting of a pin(acus), and of a curved portion furnished with ahook (kAcis, Horn. Od. xviii. 293). The curvedportion was sometimes a circular ring or disc, thepin passing across its centre (woodcut, figs. 1, 2),and sometimes an arc, the pin being as the chordof the arc (fig. 3). The forms of brooches, whichwere commonly of gold or bronze, and more rarelyof silver (Aelian, V. H. i. 18), were, however, asvarious in ancient as in modern times ; for thefibula served in dress not merely as a fastening,but also as an ornament. (Horn. Od. xix. 256,257 ; Eurip. Phocn. 821.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Women wore the fibula both with the Amictusand the indidus; men wore it with the amktusonly. Its most frequent use was to pin togethertwo parts of the scarf, shawl or cloak [Chla-mys ; Peplum ; Pallium], which constitutedthe amictus, so as to fasten it over the rightshoulder. (Soph. Track. 923 ; Theocrit. xiv. 66 ; M M 2 532 FIBULA. FICTILE. Ovid, Met. viii. 318 ; Tacit. Germ. 17). [Wood-cuts, pp. 2, 117, 213.] More rarely we see itover the breast. [Woodcut, p. 218.] The epi-thet erepSirop-rros was applied to a person wear-ing the fibula on one shoulder only (Schol. inEurip. Flee. 933, 934) ; for women often wore iton both shoulders. [Woodcuts, pp. 136, 243,257.] In consequence of the habit of putting onthe amictus with the aid of a fibula, it was calledTrepovrjfxa or ifxirepovrj^a (Theocrit. Adon. 34. 79),iropirrj,ua (Eurip. Eleet. 820), or dfnrexour] irepo-vr]Tis (Brunck, Anal. ii. 28). The splendid shawlof Ulysses, described hi the Od
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