Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Velamentum

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. 

VELAMEN'TUM. Same as VELAMEN. Senec. Cons. ad Marc. 15.

2. Velamenta (ἱκετήρια). Objects borne in the hands by suppliants as a symbol of their condition; amongst which are included the olive-branch, caduceus, and woollen fillets, &c. Liv. xxiv. 30. Tac. Hist. i. 66. Ov. Met. xi. 278.