Pallium
(
ἱμάτιον, φᾶρος). The Roman name for a large Grecian
cloak or blanket of wool, which was also worn by Romans among the Greeks. It
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Lady in Out-door Dress. (From a terra-cotta in the British Museum.)
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was especially the garb of the philosophers. In Rome it was also worn by courtesans.
In a general sense the word also denotes any large rectangular cloth used for a covering as a
pall (
Flor. i. 4); a counterpane for a bed (
Juv.vi.
236); a curtain (Prudent.
ad Symm. ii. 726), etc. See Studniczka,
Beiträge zur Geschichte der altgriechischen Tracht (Vienna,
1886); Baumeister,
Denkmäler, s. v.
“Himation.”