Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subligaculum

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. 

SUBLIGA'CULUM (διάζωμα). A cloth fastened round the waist, then passed through or between the thighs, and fastened under the fork (Non. s. v. p. 29.), to answer the purpose of drawers, like that worn by itinerant tumblers in our own streets, as shown by the annexed example (Subligaculum/1.1), from a small figure in the Collegio Romano. It was also worn upon the stage as a safeguard against any casual or indelicate exposure of the person. Cic. Off. i. 35.

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  Subligaculum/1.1