. 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. ight of wearing which formed oneof the exclusive privileges of aRoman senator, though at a later; period it appears to have been some-times granted as a favour to indi-; viduals of the equestrian order.(Hor. Sat. i. 6. 28. Aero ad i. 5. 36. Quint, viii. 5. 28. Fes-tus, s. v. Clavatus. Ovid. Trist. iv.
. 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. ight of wearing which formed oneof the exclusive privileges of aRoman senator, though at a later; period it appears to have been some-times granted as a favour to indi-; viduals of the equestrian order.(Hor. Sat. i. 6. 28. Aero ad i. 5. 36. Quint, viii. 5. 28. Fes-tus, s. v. Clavatus. Ovid. Trist. iv. 10. 29. Plin. Bp. ii. 9.) As thei clavus was a mere shade of colourwoven up with the fabric, and, con-sequently, possessed no substance ofits own, it is not indicated upon anyof the statues which represent personsof senatorial rank ; for the sculptordeals only with substantial forms;and the Roman paintings which re-main to us are mostly imitations ofGreek works, representing mytho-logical or heroical subjects, or other-wise scenes of common life. Conse-quently, we have no known exampleof the broad senatorial clavus uponany existing monument; but a fair CLAVTJS. CLIBANUS. 177 notion of its real character may beobtained from the annexed wood-cut,representing the Persian sarapis, as. worn by Darius, in the Pompeianmosaic of the battle of Issus ; andwhich was decorated with a similarornament, with the exception, thatthe stripe of the Persian kings waswhite upon a purple ground, that ofthe Roman senators purple on awhite one. 9. Clavus angustus. The narrowstripe; a distinctive badge of theequestrian order. (Pa-terc. ii. 88. 2.) It wasof purple colour, likethe former, and also adecoration to the tunic;but differed in cha-racter, inasmuch as itconsisted of two narrowstripes running parallelto each other downthe front of the tunic,one on the right, andthe other on the leftside of the person ;whence the plural pur~puree (Quint, xi. 3. 138.) is some-times used, instead of the singular,
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