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Title: A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hand and arm would be free and unembarrassed ;but in the preceding cut, copied from the RaccoltaMaffei, representing also a Roman emperor, weperceive that the clasp is on the left shoulder ;while in the cut below, the noble head of a warriorfrom the great Mosaic of Pompeii, we see thepaludamentum flying back in the charge, and theclasp nearly in front. It may be said that the lastis a Grecian figure ; but this, if true, is of no im-portance, since the chlamys and the paludamentumwere essentially, if not absolutely, the same. NoniusMarcellus considers the two terms synonymous,and Tacitus (Ann. xii. 56) tells how the splendidnaumachia exhibited by Claudius was viewed byAgrippina dressed clilamyde aurata, while Pliny(H. N. xxxiii. 3) and Dion Cassius (lx. 33) innarrating the same story use respectively the ex-pressions paludamento auroteoctili, and x^-aix^L
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The colour of the paludamentum was commonlywhite or purple, and hence it was marked and re-membered that Crassus on the morning of thefatal battle of Carrhae went forth in a dark-colouredmantle. (Val. Max. i. 6. § 11 ; compare Plin.H. N. xxii. 1 ; Hirtius, de hello Jfricano, c.57.) (W.R.) PALUS, a pole or stake, was used in the mili-tary exercises of the Romans. It was stuck intothe ground, and the tirones had to attack it as if ithad been a real enemy ; hence this kind of exer-cise is sometimes called Palaria. (Veget. i. 11).Juvenal (vi. 247) alludes to it when he says, Quis non vidit vulnera pali ? and Martial (vii.32. 8) speaks of it under the name of stipes, Autnudi stipitis ictus hebes. (Becker,Gallus,i. p.278.) PAMBOEOTIA (ira^goioSria), a festive pane-gyris of all the Boeotians, which the grammarianscompare with the Panathenaea of the Atticans,and the Panionia of the Ionians. The principalobject of the meeting was the common worship ofAthena Itonia, who had a temple in the nei

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