Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Capital

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. 

CAP'ITAL. A small kerchief of woollen cloth (Varro, L. L. v. 130.), worn in early times by the Roman women round the head, to keep the hair from flowing loose; and subsequently retained as a peculiarity in costume by young females attached to the services of religion, such as the Flaminica, or attendant upon the wife of the Flamen Dialis. Varro, l. c. Festus s. v.