Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Exomis

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. 

EXO'MIS (ἐχωμίς). A particular kind of Greek tunic, afterwards adopted by the Romans, without sleeves, very short (substricta), and entirely open down the right side, so that, when put on, the right shoulder (ὦμος), as well as the arm and breast, were left exposed. (Aul. Gell. vii. 12. 1.) It was the usual dress of persons employed in active and laborious occupations, such as slaves, rustics, artizans, and huntsmen; hence, in works of art, it is frequently worn by Vulcan, Charon, Daedalus, and Amazons, all of whom pursued a life of toil or industry, and in a similar form to that on the annexed figure (Exomis/1.1), representing a slave in attendance on a hunting party, from a Roman bas-relief.

2. The same term was also applied to the pallium (περίβλημα), Jull. Poll. vii. 48.), when it was arranged upon the person in such a manner as to present a similar appearance to that of the tunic last described; covering only the left shoulder, but leaving the right one with the arm and breast exposed, as exhibited by the annexed figure (Exomis/2.1) from the Vatican Virgil.

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  Exomis/1.1
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  Exomis/2.1