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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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as confuti funt, et ex fuperiori parte corrigia trahuntur, ut conftringantnr: unde et nominantur.VoJJius, in Objlrigillo, writes: * Antiqui obftrigillos vel obftrigilla dixere vincula focculorum, vel calceos amentatos. ( 1 \~) Balduinus, cap. xii. thinks, that at firffc the fandal was open, but that after-wards it was made like a Ihoe, in being wholly covered and fattened by a firing ofleather, or fomething of that fort. It differed however with refpeft to form andneatnefs ; for whereas the fhoe had a longifh peak turning up, and covered not onlythe foot but alfo the middle leg; on the other hand the fandal refembled the folea,and was equally neat; in a word, exa&ly like the pantofle of modern ladies. SaUmajiusy Nigronius, and Rubenius do not diftinguifh the fandal from the Ihoe; hold-ing that the fandal was always open. We fliall have occafion in feveral places, andparticularly in illuftrating the reprefentation of a Ihoe-makers (hop, to fpeak morelargely upon this fubjeft. PLATE
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I ( 95 ) PLATE XXII. (■) fTT^ HIS light and airy figure Is covered with long and veryJL thin purple (2) drapery. Her right fhoulder and armare bare (3), except that a very thin yellow veil (4) croffes (1) Catalogue, n. 531. I. \_z\ Plautics, in the Aulularia, acl. iii. fc. v. introduces old Megadorus defcrib-ing the great inconveniences which large dowries bring with them, and pleafantlyexaggerating the intolerable expenfes which the hufband is obliged to incur to fat-isfy the vanity of his wife. He enumerates all the trades which were employed toferve the luxury of women. Among thefe he mentions the violarii, whom Ferra-rius, i. de ReVeJliaria, iii. 21. explains to mean, eos, qui violae colore veftes tingerent. Pliny, in lib. xxi. cap. vi. fays: fi Violis honor proximus—ex iis* quae—purpureae—folaeque Graeco nomine a caeteris diflinguuntur, appellata la,u ut ab his ianthina veftis. It is not however a true purple, but vs-oppvpo&hs, asthe^ luvQov is called by Hefychius. Pl

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