Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Recta

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. 

REC'TA (ὀρθοσταδίας). A tunic, woven in one piece all round, like our stockings; which fitted into the waist, and took the form of the figure, without requiring any girdle to keep it adjusted to the person, as was necessary with the common tunic, which was made of equal width from top to bottom. It consequently hung down in straight or direct folds from the neck to the feet, as exhibited by the annexed figure (Recta/1.1) of Ceres, which peculiarity gave rise to the name, both in the Latin and Greek language. Plin. H. N. viii. 74. Festus, s. v. Isidor. Orig. xix. 22. 18. Pollux. vii. 48.

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