Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tapes

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. 

TAP'ES, TAPE'TE, or TAPE'TUM (τάπης). Baize, or drugget of long napped wool (Plin. H. N. viii. 73.), used as tapestry for the walls of a room, carpeting for floors, coverlets for couches, chairs, or beds (Plaut. Stich. ii. 3. 54. Mart. xiv. 147. Virg. Aen. ix. 325., and wood-cuts s. AULAEA and SOLIUM 2.), and as caparisons for horses, of richly-dyed colours instead of skin. (Sil. Ital. xvii. 64. Apul. Met. x. 224. Virg. Aen. vii. 277., and wood-cuts s. STRAGULUM.)