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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subminia

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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. 

SUBMIN'IA. A garment mentioned by Plautus (Epid. ii. 2. 48.) in a catalogue of female apparel. Probably, only a name in vogue at his day, descriptive of a reddish tint (minium) with which it was dyed.

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