A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ng of a piece of white cloth borderedwith purple, oblong in shape, and secured by aclasp. (Festus, s. v. Suffibulum.) In dress andgeneral deportment they were required to observethe utmost simplicity and decorum, any fancifulornaments in the one or levity in the other beingalways regarded with disgust and suspicion. ( 44, Hii. 15 ; Plin. Ep. iv. 11 ; Ovid. East. ) We infer from a passage in Pliny (H. 85) that their hair was cut off, probably at theperiod of their consecration ; whether this was re-peated from time to time doe
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ng of a piece of white cloth borderedwith purple, oblong in shape, and secured by aclasp. (Festus, s. v. Suffibulum.) In dress andgeneral deportment they were required to observethe utmost simplicity and decorum, any fancifulornaments in the one or levity in the other beingalways regarded with disgust and suspicion. ( 44, Hii. 15 ; Plin. Ep. iv. 11 ; Ovid. East. ) We infer from a passage in Pliny (H. 85) that their hair was cut off, probably at theperiod of their consecration ; whether this was re-peated from time to time does not appear, but theyare never represented with flowing locks. Thefirst of the following cuts, copied from a gem(Montfaucon, Ant. Exp. i. pi. xxviii., Supplem. xxiii.), represents the Vestal Tuccia who whenwrongfully accused appealed to the goddess to vin-dicate her honour, and had power given her tocarry a sieve full of water from the Tiber to thetemple. (Val. Max. viii. 1. § 5 ; Plin. H. 2.) The form of the upper garment is. here well seen. The second is from a denarius ofthe Gens Clodia, representing upon the reverse afemale priestess with a simpuvium in her hand,and bearing the legend vestalis ; on the ob-verse is a head of Flora with the words c. F. Two Vestals belonging to thisgens were celebrated in the Roman Annals. (SeeOvid. Fast. iv. 279 ; Suet. Tib. 2 ; Augustin. deCiv. Dei, x. 16 ; Herodian. i. 11.) [Triumphus,p. 1165, a.] The coin seems to have been struck tocommemorate the splendour of the Floralia as ex-hibited during the famous aedileship of C. ClodiusPulcherB. c. 99. (Cic. de Off. ii. 16, c. ; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4.) (Lipsius, de Vesta et Vestalibis Syntagma, andNoehden, On the worship of Vesta, &c. Clas-
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