Textrinum antiquorum : an account of the art of weaving among the ancients ... (1843)
Yates, James, 1789-1871 · London : Taylor and Walton · leaf 453
petasus is called the Causia (xavola)*, and was adopted by the Romans+, and more espe- cially by the Emperor Caracalla, who, as Herodian states, aimed to imitate Alexander the Great in his costume. It appears probable, nevertheless, that the turning up of the brim was not peculiar to the… … the left-hand figure from * Val. Max. v. 1. Evtern.4. Pausan., ap. Eustath. in Il. ii. 121. It is to be observed, that the causia and petasus are opposed to one another by a writer in Athenzus (L. xii. 537, 6), as if the causia was not a petasus. T Plautus, Mil. iv.4.42. Pers.i.3.75. Antip. Thess.…
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