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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ornatrix

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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. 

ORNA'TRIX. A female slave, whose chief business consisted in attending the toilette of her mistress for the especial purpose of dressing her hair (Ov. A. Am. iii. 239. Suet. Claud. 40.), upon which the Roman women bestowed a vast deal of attention and ingenuity, judging from the various and often fantastic coiffures exhibited in the numerous busts remaining of the Imperial period. The annexed illustration (Ornatrix/1.1) represents an ornatrix, in a Pompeian painting, dressing her mistress's hair with flowers, some of which are seen lying on the toilette table beside her.

  • Ornatrix/1.1
    Ornatrix/1.1

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