A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Rome personified, formerly belonging to the Bar-berini family. The clavus angustus is seen in thethree figures introduced below, all of which aretaken from sepulchral paintings executed subse-quently to the introduction of Christianity atRome. The female figure on the left hand, whichis copied from Buonarotti {Osservazioni sopraalcuni Frammenti di Vasi antichi di Vetro, fig. 1), represents the goddess Moneta. Theone on the right hand is from a cemetery on theVia Salara Nova, and represents Priscilla, an earlymartyr. The next figure is s
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Rome personified, formerly belonging to the Bar-berini family. The clavus angustus is seen in thethree figures introduced below, all of which aretaken from sepulchral paintings executed subse-quently to the introduction of Christianity atRome. The female figure on the left hand, whichis copied from Buonarotti {Osservazioni sopraalcuni Frammenti di Vasi antichi di Vetro, fig. 1), represents the goddess Moneta. Theone on the right hand is from a cemetery on theVia Salara Nova, and represents Priscilla, an earlymartyr. The next figure is selected from three ofa similar kind, representing Shadrach, Meshach,u 3 294 CLAVUS LATUS. and Abednego, from the tomb of Pope Callisto onthe Via The latus clavus was a distinctive badge of thesenatorian order (latum demisit pectore clavum,Hor. Sat. i. 6. 28 ; Ovid, Trist. iv. 10. 35): andhence it is used to signify the senatorial dignity(Suet. Tib. 35, Vesp. 2, 4) ; and laticlavius, forthe person who enjoys it. (Suet. Aug. 38.) Indistinction to the angustus clavus, it is termedpurpura major (Juv. Sat. i. 106), purpura latior(Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 7) ; and the garment it de-corated, tunica potens (Stat. Sylv. v. 2. 29). Thetunica laticlavia was not fastened round the waistlike the common tunic, but left loose, in order thatthe clavus might lie flat and conspicuously overthe chest. (Quinctil. xi. 3. § 138.) The angustus clavus was the decoration of theequestrian order ; but the right of wearing thelatus clavus was also given to the children ofequestrians (Ovid. Trist. iv. 10. 29), at least inthe time of Augustus, as a prelude to entering thesenate-house. This, however, was a matter ofpersonal indulgence, and not of individual rig
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