Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Instita

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. 

IN'STITA. An ornament attached to the stola of a Roman matron (Hor. Sat. i. 2. 29. Ov. A. Am. i. 32.); supposed to have been a sort of broad fillet, similar to the flounce of modern times, sewed on to the bottom skirt of the outer tunic, which, with this adjunct, then became a stola. It is not, however, visibly expressed upon any work of painting or sculpture which has reached us; unless, perhaps, and that is not improbable, the number of thick folding plaits in the annexed (Instita/1.1) and many other figures, similarly draped in the stola, are intended to represent this flounce, though its juncture with the tunic is concealed under the loose drapery of the amictus, which covers the lower part of the under garment, as it here does, in all the statues and figures which are pourtrayed in a corresponding costume to the present one.

2. A fillet, or riband, which it was usual to tie round the top of the thyrsus under the foliaged head (Stat. Theb. vii. 654.), as in the annexed example (Instita/2.1), from a Pompeian painting.

3. In the plural; the bands or cords interlaced across the frame of a bed or couch, to make a support for the mattress (Pet. Sat. 97. 4.); as in the annexed example (Instita/3.1), from a terra-cotta lamp.

4. Also, in a general sense, anything which serves as a band or bandage. Pet. Sat. xx. 3.

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