Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mitella

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. 

MITEL'LA (μιτρίον). Diminutive of MITRA. A coif or bandage, in the shape of a half-handkerchief (Celsus, viii. 10. 3.); worn by the Greek women (Virg. Cop. 1.) round the head, as shown by the annexed example (Mitella/1.1), from a bust in the British Museum, and frequently represented on fictile vases and the Pompeian paintings. Men used a similar bandage tied round their heads when at home, or at drinking bouts, to counteract the effects of the wine (Aristot. ap. Athen. xv. 16.); and Cicero speaks of it as a scandal that he had seen both young and old persons in the public streets of Naples wearing mitellae (Rab. Post. 10.).

2. A sling for a broken arm, made of a bandage in the shape described. Celsus, l. c.

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  Mitella/1.1