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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.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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