Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Toral

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. 

TOR'AL and TORA'LE. A valance, attached in front to the lower part of a dining couch, between the mattress (torus) and the floor (Varro, L. L. vi. 167. Pet. Sat. 40. 1. Hor. Ep. i. 5. 22.), as in the annexed example (Toral/1.1) from a painting discovered at Resina; thus contradistinguished from the stragulum and peristroma, which were laid, like a sheet, entirely over the mattress for the occupant to repose upon, as shown by the illustration s. v. It was usually composed of white drapery, or at least of some washing material for the sake of cleanliness (Hor. Sat. ii. 4. 84.); but gold tissue or embroidery is mentioned (Lamprid. Elag. 19.); and the ridiculous Trimalchio has a valance, with a hunting scene embroidered upon it, brought in and fastened under the mattresses, upon which guests were actually reposing at dinner, just before a wild-boar was served up. Pet. l. c.

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