Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Collyris

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

COLLY'RIS (κολλυρίς). Same as COLLYRA. Augustin. de Gent.

2. A head-dress worn by women, and supposed to have received its name from some resemblance in form to the bread or bun designated by the same term. (Tertull. Cult Foem. 7.) In a Pompeian painting (Mus. Borb. vi. 38.), there is represented a plate of bread or buns divided into separate segments of precisely the same form as those which appear on the head-dress worn by Faustina on an engraved gem (see the wood-cut s. CALIENDRUM; such a coincidence favours the conjecture that the painting affords a genuine example of the kind of bread, and the gem of the peculiar head-dress which went under the same name.