Caliendrum
A tall female head-dress, but whether a wig of false hair or an arrangement of draperies,
it is not easy to determine. The Cruquian scholiast on the
locus
classicus of Horace (
Sat. i. 8, 48) gives both explanations, without attempting to decide
between them (
peplum capitis aut crinis suppositicius seu capillamentum aut
galericulus capitisve ornamentum). But
galericulus may mean a
wig (
Oth. 12, with Casaubon's note); and the humour of the passage is
decidedly in favour of this rendering: one of the two old women drops her false teeth in her
flight, and the other her false hair.