Galērus
or
Galērum, dim.
Galericŭlum
(probably connected with
galea, and so with
γαλέη).
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Galerus (Du Choul, Castramet. p. 100).
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Originally a cap of skin or fur, fitting close to the head, worn by rustics
(
Moret. 122), hunters (
Cyneg. 340, where it is of badger-skin),
gymnasts in the palaestra to keep the hair clean (
Mart.xiv. 50),
and by the old inhabitants of Latium instead of a helmet (
Verg.
Aen. vii. 688; cf.
Cudo). For
the galerus worn by various priests—e. g. the Pontifices Salii and Flamines and the
albogalerus or
albus galerus of the
Dialis—see
Apex. The word is also applied to
a wig, the
empti capilli of Ovid (
A.
A. iii. 165; cf.
Caliendrum;
Coma); worn not only from vanity or to conceal baldness
(
Oth. 12), but for the sake of disguise by profligates of both sexes in
their nocturnal rambles (
Juv.vi. 120, with the schol.); and on the
stage as part of the make-up (Guhl and Koner, 5th ed. p. 762).
