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Title: Charicles: or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Becker, W. A. (Wilhelm Adolf), 1796-1846 Metcalfe, Frederick, 1815-1885
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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€^^7j;e \ay6vos is fxiaov irap ofKpahSv. He also cites a fragment of Chseremon, apud Atlien. xiii. p. 608: fKeiTO S 7) yikv K^vKbv els (re\r)v6(pojs(paivovaa /jLaarhv XeXvfx^vrjs iirwfxiSos. In these passages, however, the word €7rw/itc may just as well be understood of the garment itself, and it is evidently taken in this sense by Pollux, vii. 49 : Kai iha 3e yvvaiKu>y tVwyutc, ^nrXoihoiy ijfMhirXdL^iovj k.t.X, So too a fragment of Apollodorus, ap. Suidas, S. V. iy/vOjUpwo-acrflai: T^,v eiTufiiSaTTV^oco SittA^v &vii)dev iyeKOix^ooadiniV. 42G THE DRESS. (Excursus L IMiiller also takes tyKVKXov as synonymous with diploidion; buttliis is very doubtful. The Scholiast to Aristoph. Tliesmoph. 261,very properly observes : ciiXoy ce, otl to tyKVKkov l/jiaTior, o cei^poKioTog tvcvfxa. and again, Lijsistr. 114, we have TovyKvKXovTovTL Karadeiaay. Pollux, however, understands the word tomean a coloured border. See vii, 53. The sleeves of the proper Ionic chiton seem quite closed, and
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V A female from )\Iillin, Pei7i(. d Vas. ii. 70. She is dressed in a long chiton,witliout sleeves, and fastened over the shoulders (^iirufiis). The diploidion isbordered with a coloured edge; below it is the lappet (koXttos) caused by thegirdle; on the right side near the seam are two parallel stripes QdjBdoi orTrapvcpai). The snutU shawl-shaped himation (d/UTrexoVjoj/) has also,a purpleborder (^Trapvcphs or -jrapaXovpyes, Poll.) at each end. Siie wears shoes, coveringthe whole foot, and in her left hand is a parasol (<T/fia5eioy), of the usual form. Scene XL) THE DRESS. 427 hang down in folds like broad pouches; hut they were oflen slitopen from the shoulder on the upper side, and fastened withclasps, so that the arm might be seen. This sort Bottiger veryimproperly terms X^^^ (t\l(tt6c. The Ionic chiton was generally much longer than the body,and was so drawn up by the girdle as just to reach to the feet.The fold or lappet (k-oXttoc) which was by this means causedunder the breast

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