Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Diloris

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. 

DILO'RIS. A hybrid word, meaning literally furnished with two thongs; but intended to designate the two stripes of purple, or purple and gold, termed paragaudae, which, in late times, were employed to ornament wearing apparel, in a similar manner to the clavus, as explained and illustrated under the word PARAGAUDA. Vopisc. Aurel. 46.