calautica

călautĭca (in many MSS. and edd. erroneously călantĭca), ae, f. [of uncertain etym.; acc. to Beier, Cic. Clod. et Cur. 5, p. 107, perh. kindr. with καλύπτω, as auris, through the Cretan form αὖς, with οὖς],

• a covering for the head of women, which fell down over the shoulders (perh. a kind of veil): calautica est tegmen muliebre, quod capiti innectitur, Non. p. 537, 2 sq.: mitrae, semimitrae, calautica, etc.; cf. Mai and Orell. in h. l. (Orell. Cic. V. 2, p. 336); Cic. Fragm. Clod. et Cur. 5, 3 B. and K.; Dig. 34, 2, 25, § 10; cf. also Arn. 2, p. 59, and Gloss. Philox.; Aus. Per. Odyss. 5: εἶδος ζώνης (Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 616, erron. considers it as of like signif. with mitra).

calautica (nicht calantica), ae, f. = κρήδεμνον, eine Kopfbedeckung vornehmer Frauen, mit einem Bande um den Kopf befestigt, mit schleierartig auf beide Wangen herabhängenden breiten Zipfeln, die man auch auseinanderziehen und so das ganze Gesicht damit verhüllen konnte, Afran. com. 37. Cic. or. in P. Clod. et Cur. 5, 3. p. 30 K. (u. dazu Schol. Bob. p. 336, 18 B.). Ulp. dig. 34, 2, 25. § 10. Arnob. 2, 23. Auson. perioch. Odyss. 5. Serv. Verg. Aen. 9, 16.

călautĭca, (16) æ, f. , sorte de coiffe pour les femmes : Cic. Fr. A 13, 24 ; Serv. En. 9, 613.

calautica . v. calantica.


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CALAUTICA

CALAU´TICA(in some MSS. calanticaor calvatica), a female head-dress, described by Nonius, p. 537, as tegmen muliebre, quod capiti innectitur. Cf. Cic. Fragm. in Clod. et Cur. 5: quum calautica capiti accommodaretur, where it appears to be used in the same sense as mitra. So Serv. ad Aen. 9.616, and Ulp. Dig. 34, 2, 25.10: ornamentorum haec: vittae, mitrae, semimitrae, calautica. Gloss. Philox., however, explains it as εἶδος ζώνης.

Ausonius (Perioch. Od. v.) used calautica as a translation of κρήδεμνον. From this and other considerations Rich is led to identify the two words as signifying a head-dress with lappets hanging down to the shoulders on both sides, so that they might be drawn together to conceal the face (Hom. Od. 1.334; II. 14.184; and Eustath. ad loc.); but its form is quite uncertain.

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