Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Paragauda

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. 

PARAGAU'DA or PARAGAU'DIS. An ornamental band of gold, or of coloured silk decorated with golden embroidery, sewn on to the tunic; whence the garment itself so decorated is also designated by the same term. It appears to have been a fashion introduced under the empire, as a sort of substitue for the more ancient clavus, as the word only occurs amongst the writers of that period; and was distinguished by the epithets monoloris, diloris, triloris, pentaloris, according to the number of bands, one, two, three, four, or five, attached. (Vopisc. Aurel. 46. Impp. Grat. Valent. et Theodos. Cod. 11. 8. 2.) The annexed figure (Paragauda/1.1), from an ancient Roman fresco discovered near the church of St. John in Lateran at Rome, is introduced as affording a notion, and probable specimen, of the ornament in question.

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  Paragauda/1.1