A dictionary of Greek and Roman . surmounted by a crown. Frequently the crownis in the form of a skull-cap ; we also find it sur-rounded with a very narrow brim. The Greekpetasus in its most common form agreed with thecheapest hats of undyed felt, now made in Eng-land. On the heads of rustics and artificers inour streets and lanes we often see forms the exactcounterpart of those which we most admire in theworks of ancient art. The petasus is also stillcommonly worn by agricultural labourers in Greeceand Asia Minor. In ancient times it was pre-ferred to the skull-cap as a protecti
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . surmounted by a crown. Frequently the crownis in the form of a skull-cap ; we also find it sur-rounded with a very narrow brim. The Greekpetasus in its most common form agreed with thecheapest hats of undyed felt, now made in Eng-land. On the heads of rustics and artificers inour streets and lanes we often see forms the exactcounterpart of those which we most admire in theworks of ancient art. The petasus is also stillcommonly worn by agricultural labourers in Greeceand Asia Minor. In ancient times it was pre-ferred to the skull-cap as a protection from the sun(Sueton. Aug. 82), and on this account Caligulapermitted the Roman senators to wear it at thetheatres. (Dion Cass. lix. 7.) It was used byshepherds (Callim. Frag. 125), hunters, and tra-vellers. (Plaut. Amphitr. Prol. 143, i. 1. 287,Pseud, ii. 4. 45, iv. 7. 90 ; Brunck, Anal. ii. 170.)The annexed woodcut is from a fictile vase belong-ing to Mr. Hope {Costume, i. 71), and it repre-sents a Greek soldier in his hat and pallium. The. ordinary dress of the Athenian ephebi, well exhi-bited in the Panathenaic Frieze of the Parthenon,now preserved in the British Museum, was the hatand scarf. [Chlamys.] (Brunck, Anal. i. 5,ii. 41 ; Philemon, p. 367, ed. Meineke ; Pollux,x. 164.) Among imaginary beings the same cos-tume was commonly attributed to Mercury ( Gent. vi. ; Martianus Capella, ii. 176 ; Ephip-pus ap. Athen. xii. p. 537. f), and sometimes tothe Dioscuri. Ancient authors mention three varieties of thepetasus, the Thessalian (Dion Cass. I. c.; 124 ; Schol. in Soph. Oed. Col. 316), theArcadian (Brunck, Anal. ii. 384 ; Diog. Laert. ), and the Laconian (Arrian. Tact. p. 12, ) ; but they do not say in what the dif- PISTOR. ference consisted. In like manner it is by nomeans clear in what respects the Causia differedfrom the petasus, although they are distinctly op-posed to one another by a writer in Athenaeus(xii. p. 537, e). More
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