. 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. 572 SAPO. BARA ((rapd6a\\a andLong and loose trowsers (fluxa acsinuosa, xix. 23.)reaching from thewaist to the instep,worn by the Par-thian s (Publiusap. Isidor. I. c),Medes ( 4.), and someothers of the Asi-atics ; and alsoby the Northernpeople, as repre-sented by the an
. 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. 572 SAPO. BARA ((rapd6a\\a andLong and loose trowsers (fluxa acsinuosa, xix. 23.)reaching from thewaist to the instep,worn by the Par-thian s (Publiusap. Isidor. I. c),Medes ( 4.), and someothers of the Asi-atics ; and alsoby the Northernpeople, as repre-sented by the annexed figure of a Ger-man auxiliary on the column of Trajan. SATO (adwccv). A Celtic orGerman word, containing the ele-ments of the low German sepe, andour soap, but indicating an article ofdifferent character, both in qualityand use, from what is now understoodby that term; inasmuch as the ancientsapo was not made for washing, butas a pommade for tinging the hair ofa light brown colour. It was com-posed with goats tallow and beechwood ashes, the most approvedquality being manufactured by itsinventors the Germans, the next bestin Gaul. It was made up into balls,and imported at Rome for the useof women and young fashionables,amongst whom light hair was con-sidered extremely beautiful, as it isby their de
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