Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Calthula

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. 

CAL'THULA. An article of female attire which appears to have been much in vogue at the time of Plautus. (Epid. ii. 2. 49.) It is supposed to have received its name from the caltha (Non. Marc. s. v. p. 548.), the calendula officinalis of Linnaeus, which is a flower of a yellow colour; but it is impossible to ascertain the exact nature of merely local or temporary fashions.