Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pileus

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. 

PI'LEUS or PI'LEUM (πῖλος, πιλωτόν). A cap, properly speaking, of felt, and worn by men as contradistinct from those which were worn by women (Plaut. Amph. i. 1. 300. Mart. xiv. 132. Serv. ad Virg. Aen. ix. 616). They naturally varied in form amongst different nations of antiquity, but still preserving the same general characteristics of a round cap without any brim, and fitting close or nearly so to the head, as exemplified by the specimens (Pileus/1.1) annexed, which represent three of the most usual forms occurring in works of art. The first on the left shows the Phrygian bonnet from a statue of Paris. The centre one the Greek cap, mostly egg-shaped, as here, from a bust of Ulysses; and the last, the Roman cap of liberty, from a coin of Brutus.

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