This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...managed it added expansion to the chest and shoulders, muscular fulness to arm and limb. The dresses were various. There was the xyrwv for gods, heroes, and old men. The avpfia or was a long purple robe for queens and princesses, with a train which swept the ground. The lower part of the sleeve was broidered with white ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...managed it added expansion to the chest and shoulders, muscular fulness to arm and limb. The dresses were various. There was the xyrwv for gods, heroes, and old men. The avpfia or was a long purple robe for queens and princesses, with a train which swept the ground. The lower part of the sleeve was broidered with white. The Xvime was a short train with short sleeves drawn over the iriav irocifipn . Slaves wore the ijuanov, a kind of short shirt, or the f &ipe, a shirt with only a sleeve for the right arm; the left was bare to the shoulder. Herdsmen and shepherds were clad in the HupSipa, a kind of goatskin tunic without sleeves. Hunters had the IfiaTiov and a short horseman's cloak of a dark colour. If they were great personages, they were dressed in a tunic of deep scarlet with a rich and embroidered mantle. Warriors were arrayed in every variety of armour, with helmets adorned with plumes. The Palla or mantle for heroes was ample enough to cover the whole person. So large also was the ladies' Htirov, of fine cloth embroidered. Matrons wore this Peplum fastened veil-like on the head; Virgins clasped on the shoulder. The Peplum of a Queen was like that assigned to Juno, decked with golden stars and fastened behind the diadem. The dress of the gods was particularly splendid. Bacchus, for instance, was represented in a saffron-coloured inner vest, rich with purple figures and glittering with golden stars, and falling in many folds to the ground. This rest was girt, female fashion, high up under the breast and shoulders with a broad girdle of dark purple, set with gold and jewels. Over this inner robe was thrown the Palla of purple also, and such was the colour of his buskins. The comic dresses were of course chiefly those of ordinary life, excep...
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