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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cyclas

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CYC'LAS (κυκλάς). One of the articles of female apparel, consisting of a long and loose piece of drapery, generally made of a very fine texture, and wrapped round the body in the same manner as a pallium, being sufficiently ample to envelope the whole figure, if required, and having a border of purple colour or gold embroidery all round its edges, from which peculiarity the name is believed to have arisen. (Serv. ad. Virg. Aen. i. 282. Juv. vi. 259. Prop. iv. 7. 40. Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 41.) All these particulars are distinctly visible in the illustration (Cyclas/1.1) annexed, representing Leda in her cyclas, from a painting at Pompeii.

  • Cyclas/1.1
    Cyclas/1.1

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