Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Saraballa

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. 

SARABAL'LA and SARABA'RA (σαράβαλλα and -βαρα). Long and loose trowsers (fluxa ac sinuosa, Isidor. Orig. xix. 23.) reaching from the waist to the instep, worn by the Parthians (Publius ap. Isidor. l. c.), Medes (Tertull. Pall. 4.), and some others of the Asiatics; and also by the Northern people, as represented by the annexed figure (Saraballa/1.1) of a German auxiliary on the column of Trajan.

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