Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Monile

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. 

MONI'LE (μάννος). A necklace; a very usual ornament worn by the females of Greece and Italy, in the same manner as still practised; and made in every conceivable variety of form, pattern, and material, of which the excavations of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and the tombs of Etruria have afforded numerous and highly valuable originals. The examples (Monile/1.1) here introduced are all from Pompeian paintings, which are selected for illustration because they afford specimens of designs which appear to have been general favourites, as they are frequently met with on the fictile vases and other works of art. The top figure is a head of Juno, who wears a necklace formed of stars of gold, alternating with a large bead between each star; the two below are dancing girls; the left-hand one with a single row of pearls or beads, the other with a number of gold drops or pendants, precisely similar in pattern to an original necklace now seen in the royal museum at Naples.

2. Monile baccatum. A necklace made with a string of beads, berries, or stained glass, of which the left-hand figure in the preceding wood-cut affords an example. Virg. Aen. i. 654. Lamprid. Alex Sev. 41.

3. A collar or necklace placed as an ornament round the throat or neck of favourite animals, such as horses (Virg. Aen. vii. 278.) or deer. (Ov. Met. x. 112.) The fawn of Silvia is represented with this appendage in the Vatican Virgil; and the annexed example (Monile/3.1), from a fictile vase, shows it upon a horse, having pendants in the shape of a crescent depending from it, which explains the monile lunatum of Statius, Theb. ix. 689.

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