Abolla
A rough, thick cloak resembling the Greek
chlamys (q. v.), and called
by Horace (
Ep. i. 17, 25)
duplex pannus. It was of foreign
origin,
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Abolla. (Arch of Septimius Severus.)
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and at Rome in imperial times was worn indiscriminately as an outer garment (
Juv.iv. 76). With the wealthy it was often of purple (
Suet. Cal. 35); but it seems to have retained its
simple coarseness when adopted by philosophers. It was thus worn by the Cynics, serving alike
for day and night clothes (Martial, iv. 53, 5;
Ep. l. c., the same as the
τρίβων διπλοῦς,
Diog. Laert. vi.
22). The abolla as worn by soldiers is probably to be recognized in the bas-relief from
the arch of Septimius Severus.