Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Gausapa

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. 

GAU'SAPA, GAU'SAPE, and GAU'SAPUM (γαύσαπης). Woollen cloth of a particular fabric, introduced at Rome about the time of Augustus, which had a long nap on one side, but was smoother on the other. It was used by both sexes for articles of clothing, as well as for tablecloths, napkins, bed covers, and other domestic purposes. Plin. H. N. viii. 73. Lucil. Sat. xxi. 9. Gerlach. Ov. A. Am. ii. 300. Hor. Sat. ii. 8. 11. Mart. xiv. 152.

2. A wig made of the light flaxen hair, peculiar to the German races, which colour was much prized by the ladies of Rome. Wigs of this kind were also got up and worn by men hired to represent German captives at some of the mock triumphs of the Roman emperors (Pers. Sat. vi. 46.), when they decreed themselves this honour without having subdued the country. The figure in the engraving (Gausapa/2.1) appears on a trophy of the column of Antoninus, erected to commemorate the victories of that emperor over the Germans; an appropriate, but not very noble symbol of their defeat.

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