Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Inauris

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. 

INAU'RIS (ἐλλόβιον, ἐνώτιον). An ear-ring fastened to the ear through a hole (fenestra) bored in the lobe; very generally worn by the women of Greece and Italy (Isidor. Orig. xix. 31. 10. Plaut. Men. iii. 3. 17.), but not by males, as they were amongst some barbarous nations; though Isidorus says (l. c.) that the Greek youths wore a single ear-ring in one ear. These ornaments were made in every conceivable variety of pattern and value, of gold, pearls, precious stones, &c.; and with or without drops (stalagmia), as may be seen by the numerous specimens preserved in most cabinets of antiquities. The example (Inauris/1.1) introduced shows an ear-ring of the simplest kind, from a Pompeian painting, consisting of a plain gold ring of considerable size, such as is commonly worn by the female peasantry of Italy at this day; but many other specimens of a more elaborate and valuable character are interspersed in different parts of these pages.

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