. 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. common men,. 160 CINCTUS. CINGILLUM. A particular A sort of petticoat, like the Scotchkilt, reaching from the waist to theknees, or thereabouts, which wasworn in early times, instead of thetunic, by persons of the male sex,engaged in active or laborious em-ployments. Isidor. Orig. xix. 33. , v. 11
. 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. common men,. 160 CINCTUS. CINGILLUM. A particular A sort of petticoat, like the Scotchkilt, reaching from the waist to theknees, or thereabouts, which wasworn in early times, instead of thetunic, by persons of the male sex,engaged in active or laborious em-ployments. Isidor. Orig. xix. 33. , v. 114., as shown by theillustration, from a terra-cotta lamp. 2. A waist-band worn over thetunic (Plin. xxviii. 9. , 51.); same as Cingula and ClNGULUM, 3. 3. Cinctus of adjustingthe toga (Liv. Id. viii. 9.), inwhich one end ofit was thrown overthe head, and theother passed roundthe waist behind(Serv. ad Virg. 612.), so as topresent the appear-ance of a girdle,precisely as shownin the annexed fi-gure, from the Vatican Virgil. CINCTUS, -a, -urn. Generally,wearing a girdle, belt, or sash of anykind, and applied to both sexes ; tofemales, who wore a girdle under thebreast (Ovid. Met vi. 59. and Cin-gulum, 1.), or, like a zone, round theloins (Curt. iii. 3.
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