. 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. senting on the left side the statue ofAristides, with the pallium over histunic, and on the right, a Romanwith his toga outside, from a bas-relief of the Imperial age. These, two articles thus constitute the com-j plete attire usually worn by the greatmass of the free population in ancientGreece and Italy, an
. 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. senting on the left side the statue ofAristides, with the pallium over histunic, and on the right, a Romanwith his toga outside, from a bas-relief of the Imperial age. These, two articles thus constitute the com-j plete attire usually worn by the greatmass of the free population in ancientGreece and Italy, and are as inti-mately connected with each other asthe shirt and coat of modern times. 2. (xtr&z/ eTe/jo/ictcrxaAos). A tunicmade with only one short sleevecovering the deltoid muscle of theleft arm as far as the arm-pit, in themanner represented by the nextfigure, from a small marble statue ofthe Villa Albani. The Latin lan-guage does not afford any distinct TUNICA. 697. name for a tunic of this fashion, whichrenders it probable that it was notadopted by theRomans ; andamongst theGreeks it wasesteemed a ser-vile garb (, vii. 47.),not befitting thefree population,though it is wornby Daedalus inone of the paint-ings at examplehere given isclearly intendedto represent ayoung slave going to market, with apurse in one hand and a basket inthe other. 3. (QcafjLis, exomis.) A tunic whichonly covered the left shoulder (fi^os),leaving the rightone entirely ex-posed, in themanner repre-sented by theannexed figurefrom the VaticanVirgil. It isthere fastened bya knot on thetop of the should-er ; but the ex-omis was also made with a singlesleeve, when it was termed by theGreeks Qcafxis irepofxaaxoLKos (Pollux,vii. 47.), of which the preceding figureaffords an example. On works ofart it is often made of fur, and iscommonly worn on the stage, by thelabouring population, slaves, artists,and even females addicted to thechase and war; by Daedalus, D
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