A dictionary of Greek and Roman . o secure that part of thebody, which was covered by the ornamental kiltor petticoat. To supply this defect was the de-sign of the mitra (yUiVpa), a brazen belt lined pro-bably on the inside with leather and stuffed withwool, which was worn next to the body ( iv. 137, 187, v. 707, 857 ; Schol. in II. ), so as to cover the lower part of the abdo-men. The annexed woodcut shows the outsideand inside of the bronze plate of a mitra, onefoot long, which was obtained by Brondsted(Bronzes of Siris, p. 42) in the island of Euboea,and is now p
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . o secure that part of thebody, which was covered by the ornamental kiltor petticoat. To supply this defect was the de-sign of the mitra (yUiVpa), a brazen belt lined pro-bably on the inside with leather and stuffed withwool, which was worn next to the body ( iv. 137, 187, v. 707, 857 ; Schol. in II. ), so as to cover the lower part of the abdo-men. The annexed woodcut shows the outsideand inside of the bronze plate of a mitra, onefoot long, which was obtained by Brondsted(Bronzes of Siris, p. 42) in the island of Euboea,and is now preserved in the Royal Library atParis. We observe at one end two holes for fast •ening the strap which went behind the body,and at the other end a hook fitted probably to aring, which was attached to the strap. A portionof a similar bronze plate is engraved by Caylus(Ren. d^Ant. v. pi. 96. fig. 1). Men used their girdles to hold money insteadof a purse. (Plaut. Merc. v. 2. 84 ; Gellius, ; Sueton. Vitell. 16.) The wallet [Pera] was fastened to the girdle ; and still more frequentlythe fold of the tunic, formed by tucking it up,and called sinus, was used as a pocket to carrywhatever was necessary. As the girdle was worn to hold up the gar-ments for the sake of business or of work requiringdespatch, so it was loosened and the tunic wasallowed to fall down to the feet to indicate theopposite condition, and more especially in preparingto perform a sacrifice (veste recincta, Virg. Aen. ; Ovid, Met. vii. 182), or funeral rites (discincti,Sueton. Aug. 100; incinctae, Tibull. iii. 2. 18). A girdle was worn by young women, even whentheir tunic was not girt up, and removed on theday of marriage, and therefore called C^VV napde-viK-f). (Jacobs, Anthol. ii. p. 873 ; irapQevov /xlrpriu,Brunck, Anal. iii. 299; Sen. Oed. ii. 3. 17; v. 231 ; Longus, i. 2 ; Ovid. Epist. Her. , ix. 66, Festus, Cingulum ; Catull. ii. 13,Ixiv. 28.) The Flora in the museum at
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