Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Peripetasma

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. 

PERIPETAS'MA (περιπέτασμα). A general term, strictly Greek, for any thing which is spread out, as a covering, curtain, tapestry hanging, &c. Cic. Verr. ii. 4. 12. See AULAEA, PERISTROMA, TAPES.