Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sudarium

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. 

SUDA'RIUM (καψιδρώτιον). A cloth or handkerchief carried about the person or loose in the hand, to wipe perspiration from the face, and perform the same services as the modern pocket-handkerchief. (Quint. vi. 3. 60. xi. 3. 148. Suet. Nero, 48. Catull. xii. 14. xxv. 7.) It is carried in the left hand of a statue belonging to the Farnese collection, and supposed to represent a Roman empress, a portion of which is here engraved (Sudarium/1.1) upon a scale sufficiently large to show that the object does not form part of the general drapery, but is a separate handkerchief carried in the hand, as a modern woman carries hers.

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  Sudarium/1.1