Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Torulus

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'ULUS. Diminutive of TORUS; but specially used to designate a soret of fillet twined round the head (torulo capiti circumflexo, Ammian. xix. 1. 31.), and presenting full or swelling contours, like those produced by the stuffing in a mattress (Varro, L. L. v. 167. TORUS, 2.); or the strands of a rope (TORUS, 1.); or the protuberances of a festoon or chaplet between its ties (TORUS, 4.); as represented by the annexed example (Torulus/1.1) from a Pompeian painting. It was also worn by women (Varro, l. c.), and in the Amphitruo of Plautus, Jupiter is furnished with a torulus of gold twist (Amph. Prol. 144.), which he wore under his hat (petasus), in order that he might be distinguished from Amphitryon when he uncovered his head.

• 
  Torulus/1.1