Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Crinis

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

CRI'NIS (θρίξ). Any hair; then especially the hair of the head; more particularly implying a head of hair in its natural state and growth; i. e. not cut, nor artificially dressed. Hence, crinis passus, dishevelled hair, which is left to hang down to its full length, as was usual with the women of antiquity when afflicted with any great calamity (Liv. i. 13. and see the illustration s. PRAEFICAE); crinis sparsus, hair which streams wildly from the head, characteristic of persons under violent exertions, or possessed by any furious passion or impulse. Ovid. Met. i. 542. and the illustration s. BACCHA.