Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Linteum

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. 

LIN'TEUM (ὀθόνη). Generally, any cloth made of linen; but Pliny (H. N. xii. 22.) applies the same term to cotton fabrics. Specially, a towel, napkin, or handkerchief (Plaut. Most. i. 3. 110. Catull. xii. 3. 11. 14.), same as SUDARIUM; a curtain to close the sides of the lectica, or palanquin (Mart. ii. 57.), same as PLAGULA; the sail of a ship, which was made of strips of cloth sewed together (Virg. Aen. iii. 686. Liv. xxviii. 45.), same as VELUM.