. 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. amicta peplo);why it occurs in the sense of acarpet, curtain, veil for coveringanything; how the notion of itsbeing only a shawl has obtained;and how, when carried in the Athe-naic procession, it was said to be likethe sail of a ship; because, whenloosed from its clasps, and unfolded,it was in reality nothing
. 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. amicta peplo);why it occurs in the sense of acarpet, curtain, veil for coveringanything; how the notion of itsbeing only a shawl has obtained;and how, when carried in the Athe-naic procession, it was said to be likethe sail of a ship; because, whenloosed from its clasps, and unfolded,it was in reality nothing more than alarge rectangular piece of drapery,which acquired the characteristicappearance of a legitimate garmentfrom the manner in which it wasfolded and adjusted on the person. 2. The peplum of Athena was alarge and splendidly embroideredpiece of drapery, that was carried inpublic procession at the Panathenaicfestival, opened out to its full dimen-sions, and borne between two poles,like the sail of a ship, in the samemanner as emblazoned flags andbanners are now carried by two menin the solemn processions of the Ro-man Catholic Church (Plato, Eu-thyphr. 6. C. Virg. Cir. 21.); butwhen placed on the statue of the god-dess, it was folded and adjusted in the3 R 490 PERA. same manner as the Pall a. Thiswill be readily admitted from the an-nexed figure of Mi-nerva on a fictilevase; although thebrooches on theshoulders are con-cealed by the amic-tus outside, and thepeplum is fastenedby a girdle, ren-dered necessary bythe great depthof the upper partturned down (), thusindicating the am-plitude and consequent splendour ofthe drapery out of which the dresswas formed. Many other statuesexhibit Minerva in a similar cos-tume ; and amongst these, one of theMuseo Chiaramonti (tav. 14.), whichhas no outer drapery, shows thebrooches on both shoulders, and thewhole arrangement of the peplum ex-actly similar to the first two figuresintroduced under the article Pa
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