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palla

palla · f

a long and wide upper garment of the Roman ladies

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Where it lives

Menaechmi 41 · 43.15/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 6 · 5.33/10k
Psychomachia 3 · 5/10k
Asinaria 4 · 4.95/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

palla — Lewis & Short

palla, ae, f.kindred with pellis; cf. Doed. Syn. 5, p. 211,

I a long and wide upper garment of the Roman ladies, held together by brooches, a robe, mantle (cf.: stola, peplum, chlamys), Plaut. As. 5, 2, 35; id. Men. 1, 2, 21; 56; id. Truc. 5, 54; Hor. S. 1, 2, 99; id. Epod. 5, 65: pro longae tegmine pallae Tigridis exuviae per dorsum a vertice pendent, Verg. A. 11, 576: palla superba, Ov. Am. 3, 13, 26: obscura, Mart. 11, 104, 7: scissā pallā, Juv. 10, 262; cf. Becker, Gall. 3, p. 144 (2d edit.).—

II Transf.

A In the poets also of a garment worn by men, e. g. of the dress of a tragic actor: personae pallaeque repertor honestae Aeschylus, Hor. A. P. 278; Ov. Am. 2, 18, 15; 3, 1, 12; of the cithara-player Arion, id. F. 2, 107; of Phœbus, id. M. 11, 166; id. Am. 1, 8, 59; Tib. 3, 4, 35; of Boreas, Ov. M. 6, 705; of Mercury, Stat. Th. 7, 39; of Osiris, Tib. 1, 8, 47; of Bacchus, Stat. Ach. 1, 262; of Jason, Val. Fl. 3, 718.—

B An under-garment: citharoedus palla inaurata indutus, Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60: pallamque induta rigentem insuper aurato circumvelatur amictu, Ov. M. 14, 262; Val. Fl. 3, 525: Gallica, Mart. 1, 93, 8; Stat. Th. 7, 39; App. Flor. 15.—

C A curtain: peripe/tasma, velum, palla, Gloss. Philox.: cum inter dicentes et audientem palla interesset, Sen. Ira, 3, 22, 2.

In the wild

Palla Vergil, Aeneid 10.411
palla Vergil, Aeneid 6.555
palla Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.28
palla Seneca, Medea 1
pallae Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 23
pallaeque Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 278

6 of 141 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. palla (scan p. 500; entry #8116).

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