Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Segmentum

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. 

SEGMEN'TUM. An ornament attached to the dresses of females (Val. Max. v. 2. 1. Ov. A. Am. iii. 169. Juv. ii. 124.); consisting of one or more strips of gold tissue, or some other richly coloured material, sewed on to the skirts of the drapery in parallel lines, one above the other, like tucks (Isidor. Orig. xix. 22. 18.), as shown by the annexed example (Segmentum/1.1), representing one of the figures in the celebrated Roman fresco of the Vatican, which goes by the name of the Aldobrandini marriage. This interpretation is further confirmed by a passage of Pliny (H. N. vi. 39.), in which the word segmentum means a division formed by parallel circles  — segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere. Graeci parallelos.

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  Segmentum/1.1