Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subucula

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. 

SUBU'CULA. The innermost tunic, made of woollen (Suet. Aug. 82.), and worn next the skin, under the regular outer one (Hor. Ep. i. 1. 95.), which then was specially designated indusium or supparus, according to the style in which it was made. (Varro, L. L. v. 131. Id. ap. Non. s. v. p. 542.) It had long sleeves, which the outer one had not, and was worn by both sexes, though some scholars confine it to the male attire, contrary to the express testimony of Varro (l. c.), by whom it is also enumerated amongst the articles of female dress. It is very clearly exhibited on the annexed figure (Subucula/1.1) from a marble bas-relief; and two terra-cottas of the Museo Borbonico (xiv. 37.) represent a male and female both draped in a very similar manner, with two tunics, the underneath one in both cases having long sleeves.

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