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peplum

peplum · n

the robe of state of Minerva

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k

What it meant

pē^plum — Lewis & Short

pē^plum, i, n., and pē^plus, i, m., = pe/plon and pe/plos,

I the robe of state of Minerva at Athens, with which her statue was solemnly invested every five years at the Panathenaea, Plaut. Merc. prol. 67; id. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 480; Verg. Cir. 21 sq.; Stat. Th. 10, 56.—

II Transf.

A A splendid upper garment, a robe of state, either of gods or men (post-class.), Claud. Nupt. Honor. 123: imperatorium, Treb. XXX. Tyrann. 23.—

B Still more gen., any broad upper garment, Manil. 5, 387.—

C A disease of the eye (by which the eye is covered or veiled, as it were), Ser. Samm. 13, 220 (al. plumbum).

In the wild

pepla Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 30

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