Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fimbriatus

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. 

FIMBRIA'TUS (θυσανωτός). Furnished with tassels or fringes. The preceding wood-cut shows a table napkin ornamented in this way; but fringes upon wearing apparel in works of art are more especially introduced to characterise royal personages of foreign and barbarous nations, like the captive princes on the Arch of Constantine, or the Egyptian priesthood, especially Isis and her attendants, one of whom is represented in the annexed engraving (Fimbriatus/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, in the exact costume which Herodotus ascribed to that class (ii. 81.). It was a mark of singularity in Julius Caesar that he wore a fringe on the sleeve of his tunic (Suet. Caes. 45.); for amongst Greeks and Romans such an appendage was regarded as exclusively feminine.

2. As applied to whips, see FLAGRUM, 3.

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  Fimbriatus/1.1