Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Laena

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. 

LAE'NA (χλαίνα). A term used to designate not so much any particular description of robe, as a peculiar kind of woollen cloth, with a long loose nap (Strabo, iv. 4. 3.), which was employed for varous kinds of garments belonging to the outward apparel (amictus), such as the pallium, sagum, ricinium, lacerna, &c. But the name was also specially given to the amictus worn by the Flamines at the sacrifice; which in early times was made of this cloth, and put on double, like the Greek diplois. Varro, L. L. v. 133. Festus, s. v. Serv. ad Virg. Aen. iv. 262. Cic. Brut. 57. Juv. iii. 283. Mart. xiv. 136.