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Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)

Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 26

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ly wore their old andshabby ones next the skin, and their best of courseoutside. ANCIENT COSTUMES. II The Ionic chiton was a long and very loose gar-ment, made shirt fashion, and with sleeves that sel-dom came below the elbow. These sleeves wereoften slit up, and fastened at intervals with… … openings, and sometimeseven sleeves, for both arms.On the other hand, thatpeculiar to slaves had anopening only for the leftarm, leavinof the ri^htshoulder and breast bare. The diploidion and hemi-diploidion are sup-posed by Miiller and other authorities to have been akind of double chiton, but I…

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