The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)St. John, James Augustus
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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)
St. John, James Augustus
Greece -- Social life and customs
Footnote 163:
See an exact representation of it in the Mus. Chiaramont. pl. 8, where
we likewise find an example of the sleeves closed with agraffes.—Cf.
pl. 16.
Footnote 164:
Plates. Nos. 98. 108. 131. 162. 172.
Footnote 165:
Aristoph. Thesmoph. 256.
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But we have hitherto scarcely entered upon the list of their wardrobe,
in enumerating some of the articles of which, I must crave the reader’s
permission to employ the original terms, our language, in most cases,
furnishing us with no equivalent. And, first, following the order of
Pollux, who observes no principle of classification, we have the
_Epomis_, a robe with sleeves, opposed to the _Exomis_, which had none.
The _Diploïdion_, an ample cloak, or mantle, capacious enough to be worn
double. The _Hemidiploïdion_, a more scanty mantle; the _Katastiktos_,
adorned with flowers or figures of animals, or richly marked with spots,
the _Katagogis_, the _Epiblema_, or cloak, and the _Peplos_,[166] a word
of very equivocal character, used to signify a veil or mantle, a
sofa-carpet, or a covering for a chariot. Generally, it seems to have
designated a garment of double the necessary size, that, at pleasure, it
might be put on, or cast, like a cloak, over the whole body, as appears
from the Peplos of Athena.[167] That the word sometimes was used to
signify a tunic appears from Xenophon, who says “the peplos being rent
above, the bosom appeared.”[168] He, however, considers it to have
formed part of the male costume.
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Footnote 166:
Poll. vii. 49, seq.—The _peploma_ of Pindar (Pyth. ix. 219) is now
paploma. Wordsworth, Athens and Attica, p. 32. Cf. Iliad. ε. 315.—The
peplos was sometimes embroidered with figures.—Il. ζ. 289–295.
Footnote 167:
Sch. Aristoph. Eq. 564. Poll. vii. 50.
Footnote 168:
Poll. vii. 50. Cf. Cyrop. iii. 1. 13.-3. 67. In Homer, Iliad, γ. 385,
&c. the word, ἑανὸς, signifying a richly-wrought vest or robe, is
synonymous, as Pollux remarks, with πέπλος vii. 51. This is, likewise,
the opinion of Buttmann, who, however, supposes it to mean a “flexibly
soft garment.”—Lexil. Art. 41. Others draw a distinction between ἑανὸς
and πέπλος, the former, they say, being employed to signify a veil
unwrought and purely white, the latter, one which was variegated with
colours and embroidery. Passow considers it to be a mere adjective
signifying “clear, light,” and says, that εἷμα or ἱμάτιον is always
understood with it.
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