School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . PALMA. [Pes.] PALUDAMENTUM, the cloak wornby a Roman general commanding an army,his principal officers and personal attendants,in contradistinction to the sagum of thecommon soldiers, and the toga or garb ofpeace. It was the practice for a Romanmagistrate, after he had received imperiumfrom the comitia curiata and offered up hisvows in the capitol, to march out of thecity arrayed in the paludamentum (extrepaludatus), attended by his lictors in similarattire {paludatis lictorihus), nor could he PANATHENAEA. again enter the gates until he had fo
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . PALMA. [Pes.] PALUDAMENTUM, the cloak wornby a Roman general commanding an army,his principal officers and personal attendants,in contradistinction to the sagum of thecommon soldiers, and the toga or garb ofpeace. It was the practice for a Romanmagistrate, after he had received imperiumfrom the comitia curiata and offered up hisvows in the capitol, to march out of thecity arrayed in the paludamentum (extrepaludatus), attended by his lictors in similarattire {paludatis lictorihus), nor could he PANATHENAEA. again enter the gates until he had formallydivested himself of this emblem of militarypower. The paludamentum was open in front,reached down to the knees or a little lower,and hung loosely over the shoulders, beingfastened across the chest by a clasp. The colour of the paludamentum wascommonly white or purple, and hence itwas marked and remembered that Crassuson the morning of the fatal battle of Carrhaewent forth in a dark-coloured PALUDAMENTUM, MILITARY CLOAK. PANATHENAEA (iraj/a0rji/ata), thegreatest and most splendid of the festivalscelebrated in Attica in honour of Athena,in the character of Athena Polias, or theprotectress of the city. It was said to havebeen instituted by Erichthonius, and itsoriginal name, down to the time of Theseus,was believed to have been Athenaea; butwhen Theseus united all the Atticans intoone body, this festival, which then be-came the common festival of all the At-tic tribes, was called Panathenaea. Therewere two kinds of Panathenaea, thegreater and the lesser; the former were PANATHENAEA. held every fourth year (^TremaeTr^pls), thelatter every year. The lesser Panathcnaea were probablycelebrated on the 17th of the month Heca-tombacon ; the great Panathenaea in thethird year of every Olympiad, and probablycommenced on the same day as the lesserPanathenaea. The principal difference be-tween the two festivals was, that the greaterone was more solemn, and that on this occa-si
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