Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Amphitapus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

AMPHIT'APUS (ἀμφίταπος). Designates a particular kind of cloth, which, like the amphimallum, had a nap on both sides, but was of a finer texture (Athen. v. 26.), and probably of Oriental manufacture. There was certainly a distinction between the two; for amphimalla were not known at Rome till the time of Pliny, whereas amphitapa are mentioned by Lucilius and Varro ap. Non. s. v. p. 540. Mercer.