. 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. 698 TUNICA. tunic with long sleeves reaching downto the hands or wrists, like the Frenchblouse. In theearly ages longsleeves were notworn by themale population,either of Greeceor Italy, norgenerally by fe-males; but theywere afterwardsadopted as a lux-ury from theforeigner, andduring the Im-perial ages be-cam
. 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. 698 TUNICA. tunic with long sleeves reaching downto the hands or wrists, like the Frenchblouse. In theearly ages longsleeves were notworn by themale population,either of Greeceor Italy, norgenerally by fe-males; but theywere afterwardsadopted as a lux-ury from theforeigner, andduring the Im-perial ages be-came very com-mon amongst both sexes, as may be jseen by many specimens in the courseof these pages. The present example {is taken from one of the figures be-longing to the celebrated group of jNiobe, and is supposed to represent jthe childrens tutor or attendant 1(pcedagogus) ; consequently, a slaveand foreigner. Cic. Cat. ii. Pseud, ii. 4. 48. Aul. Gell. 1. Virg. JEn. ix. 616. 7. Tunica talaris (jtiribv nodripris).A tunic with long skirts reachingdown to the ankle joints; commonlyworn in early times by both sexesof the Ionian colonies, whence it.
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