Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagochlamys

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. 

SAGOCHLAM'YS. A particular kind of military cloak introduced under the empire, which, as the name implies, must have possessed some property common to the Greek chlamys, and the Roman or foreign sagum. (Valer. in Epist. ap. Trebell. Claud. 14.) Both the figures in the annexed woodcut (Sagochlamys/1.1), one of whom represents a foreign soldier in the Roman service, and the other a captive youth of the same nation, wear an outer cloak of very peculiar fashion, repeatedly occurring on the column of Antontinus. It is formed by two square pieces of cloth, fastened together over each shoulder by brooches, so that one of the parts depends in front of the person, the other in a corresponding manner at the back; the square form, the length of the drapery, the manner of adjusting, and the general appearance presented by it, conveying many points of resemblance to the two articles of attire, compounded in the present name, as will be apparent by referring to the figures which illustrate those terms respectively; and, as it cannot be doubted that a garment so singular as the one above delineated must have been called by a name of its own, while no other occurs in the language so appropriate as the one affixed, it is not unreasonable to infer that it is the true one.

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  Sagochlamys/1.1