Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cinctus (noun)

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. 

CINCTUS, -us (διάζωμα, περίζωμα). A sort of petticoat, like the Scotch kilt, reaching from the waist to the knees, or thereabouts, which was worn in early times, instead of the tunic, by persons of the male sex, engaged in active or laborious employments. Isidor. Orig. xix. 33. 1. Varro, L. L. v. 114., as shown by the illustration (Cinctus_1/1.1), from a terra-cotta lamp.

2. A waist-band worn over the tunic (Plin. H. N. xxviii. 9. Suet. Nero, 51.); same as CINGULA and CINGULUM, 3.

3. Cinctus Gabinus. A particular manner of adjusting the toga (Liv. v. 46. Id. viii. 9.), in which one end of it was thrown over the head, and the other passed round the waist behind (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. vii. 612.), so as to present the appearance of a girdle, precisely as shown in the annexed figure (Cinctus_1/3.1), from the Vatican Virgil.

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  Cinctus 1/1.1
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  Cinctus 1/3.1