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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: περιπέτασμα, velum, palla, Gloss. Philox.: “cum inter dicentes et audientem palla interesset,Sen. Ira, 3, 22, 2.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.166
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.262
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.705
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.576
    • Horace, Satires, 1.2.99
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 278
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 5.2
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 1.2
    • Seneca, de Ira, 3.22.2
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.525
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.718
    • Statius, Thebias, 7
    • Statius, Achilleis, 1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
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