A dictionary of Greek and Roman . resent day, byboth sexes. (Aeschyl. Pers. 204, 474, 1030, 1061.)Also in Bacchanalian processions it was worn bymen both in allusion to Oriental habits, and becausethey then avowedly assumed the dress of females.(Eurip. Daech. 783—791.) Women of high rankwore their shawls so long as to trail upon the ground.(TpctidSas eAKeaiireirhovs, Horn. II. vi. 442 ; EAcVtjTavvireirXos, Od. iv. 305.) Like all other piecesof cloth used for the Amictus, it was oftenfastened by means of a brooch [Fibula] ( 920 ; Callim. Lav. Pall. 70 ; iii
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . resent day, byboth sexes. (Aeschyl. Pers. 204, 474, 1030, 1061.)Also in Bacchanalian processions it was worn bymen both in allusion to Oriental habits, and becausethey then avowedly assumed the dress of females.(Eurip. Daech. 783—791.) Women of high rankwore their shawls so long as to trail upon the ground.(TpctidSas eAKeaiireirhovs, Horn. II. vi. 442 ; EAcVtjTavvireirXos, Od. iv. 305.) Like all other piecesof cloth used for the Amictus, it was oftenfastened by means of a brooch [Fibula] ( 920 ; Callim. Lav. Pall. 70 ; iii. 833), and was thus displayed upon thestatues of female divinities, such as Diana (Brunck,Anal. iii. 206) and the goddess Rome. ( Carm. v. 18.) Tt was, however, fre-quently worn without a brooch in the mannerrepresented in the annexed woodcut, which iscopied from one of Sir Wm. Hamiltons vases(vol. iii. pi. 58). Each of the females in this groupwears a shift falling down to her feet [Tunica], PEPLUM. PER PIGNORIS CAPIONEM. 835. and over it an ample shawl, which she passes en-tirely round her body and then throws the looseextremity of it over her left shoulder and behindher back, as is distinctly seen in the sitting shawl was also often worn so as to cover thehead while it enveloped the body, and more espe-cially on occasion of a funeral (see woodcuts, ), or of a marriage, when a very splendid shawl(iraaros, 1 Maccab. i. 27) was worn by the following woodcut (from Bartoli, Admir. pi. 57) may be supposed to represent the mo-ment when the bride, so veiled, is delivered to herhusband at the door of the nuptial chamber. Hewears the Pallium only ; she has a long shift be-neath her shawl, and is supported by the pronuba.
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