Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 400
nd peplos, the latter drawnover her head as veil, sits melancholy on her chair ; beforeher stands Telemachus, clad only in himation, and holdingtwo spears. The loom (io-to?, tela) has two uprights(ia-T07roSes) supporting cross-beams. The cloth as it iswoven is rolled round the topmost bar but one ,… … keep the alternate threads apart so as to allow the shuttleto pass ; but in the picture all the threads are representedas coming on the same side. The threads are weighted atthe bottom. The phrase Itrrov eiroixe.<r6ai in Homer isexplained by the size of this loom, Avhich made it necessaryto move…
Classical antiquities
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