Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Polymitus

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. 

POLYMI'TUS (πολύμιτος). Literally woven by the assistance of many leashes (μίτος, licia); thence by implication figured with various patterns, like our damask, for the manufacture of which a great number of leashes are requisite, in order that the threads of the warp may be opened in many different ways; for it is by this means that all varieties in the pattern of stuffs are made. Plin. H. N. viii. 74. Mart. xiv. 150.