A dictionary of Greek and Roman . J/-, Pollux, vii. 55), to allow a freemotion of the limbs: the two skirts (irrepvyes)thus frequently flew open, whence the Spartanvirgins were sometimes called ( (Pollux,I. c.), and Euripides {Androm. I. c.) speaks of themas with yvfxvolai ix-qpots nal TreirXois dveifxevois. Examples of this <txi(TT°s XLr0ClV are frequentlyseen in works of art: the following cut is takenfrom a bas-relief in the British Museum, which re-presents an Amazon with a Chiton of this kind:some parts of the figure appear incomplete, as theoriginal is mut
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . J/-, Pollux, vii. 55), to allow a freemotion of the limbs: the two skirts (irrepvyes)thus frequently flew open, whence the Spartanvirgins were sometimes called ( (Pollux,I. c.), and Euripides {Androm. I. c.) speaks of themas with yvfxvolai ix-qpots nal TreirXois dveifxevois. Examples of this <txi(TT°s XLr0ClV are frequentlyseen in works of art: the following cut is takenfrom a bas-relief in the British Museum, which re-presents an Amazon with a Chiton of this kind:some parts of the figure appear incomplete, as theoriginal is mutilated. (See also Mus. Borbon. t. 21.). The Ionic Chiton, on the contrary, was a longand loose garment, reaching to the feet (iroS-^prjs),with wide sleeves (/copai), and was generally madeof linen. The sleeves, however, appear usually tohave covered only the upper part of the arm; forin ancient works of art we seldom find the sleevesextending further than the elbow, and sometimesnot so far. The sleeves were sometimes slit up,and fastened together with an elegant row ofbrooches (Aelian, V. H. i. 18), and it is to thiskind of garment that Bottiger {Kleine Schrift. vol. 56) incorrectly gives the name of ax^ros x^T(av-The Ionic Chiton, according to Herodotus (v. 87,88), was originally a Carian dress, and passed overto Athens from Ionia. The women at Athens ori-ginally wore the Doric Chiton, but were compelledto change it for the Ionic after they had killed, with the buckles or clasps of their dresses, the singleAthenian who had returned alive from the expedi-tion against Aegina, because there were no bucklesor clasps req
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