A dictionary of Greek and Roman . eeks, and of the Orientalraces with which they were connected, althoughboth in its form and in its application it approachedvery much to the Lacerna and Paludamentumof the Romans, and was itself to some extentadopted by the Romans under the emperors. Itwas for the most part woollen ; and it differedfrom the Ifxariou, the usual amictus of the malesex, in these respects, that it was much smaller ;also finer, thinner, more variegated in colour, andmore susceptible of ornament. It moreover dif-fered in being oblong instead of square, its lengthbeing
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . eeks, and of the Orientalraces with which they were connected, althoughboth in its form and in its application it approachedvery much to the Lacerna and Paludamentumof the Romans, and was itself to some extentadopted by the Romans under the emperors. Itwas for the most part woollen ; and it differedfrom the Ifxariou, the usual amictus of the malesex, in these respects, that it was much smaller ;also finer, thinner, more variegated in colour, andmore susceptible of ornament. It moreover dif-fered in being oblong instead of square, its lengthbeing generally about twice its breadth. To theregular oblong a, b, c, d (see woodcut), goars wereadded, either in the form of a right-angled triangleuieifi producing the modification a, e, g, d, whichis exemplified in the annexed figure of Mercury ;or of an obtuse-angled triangle a, e, b, producing themodification a, e, b, c, g, d, which is exemplified inthe figure of a youth from the Panathenaic friezein the British Museum. These gears were called. irrepvyes, wings, and the scarf with these additionswas distinguished by the epithet of Thessalian orMacedonian (Etym. Mag.), and also by the nameof vAaAj| or Alicula. [Alicula.] Hence the an-cient geographers compared the form of the in-habited earth (y oiKovjxevri) to that of a chlamys.(Strabo, ii. 5 ; Macrobius, De Somn. Scip. ii.) The scarf does not appear to have been muchworn by children, although one was given with itsbrooch to Tiberius Caesar in his infancy. ( 6.) It was generally assumed on reachingadolescence, and was worn by the ephebi fromabout seventeen to twenty years of age. (Philemon,p. 367, ed. Meineke ; ephebica chlamyde, Apuleius,Met. x ; Pollux, x. 164.) It was also worn by themilitary, especially of high rank, over their body-armour (Aelian, V. H. xiv. 10 ; Plaut. Pseud, 45, Epid. iii. 3. 55), and by hunters and tra-vellers, more particularly on horseback. ( iii. 3. 6, 31.) The scarfs worn b
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