Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 349
); it is made of a soft material, and has a flapprotecting the back of the neck, and lappets which can betied under the chin : de quo pendebat etiam buccarunitegmen (Servius). Cp. Verg. Am. ix. 616 : Habent redimicula mitrae.Thus Paris (who is represented here) is described by Vergil (Aen. iv. 216)… … by Thracians, and by Greeks and Eomans generally wasregarded as a sign of Eastern barbarism or effeminacy.
Classical antiquities
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