Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Matrōna

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Matrōna

A name applied by the Romans to every honourable married woman. She enjoyed the highest esteem; the way was cleared for her in the street, in which she could not appear unaccompanied, and she was not allowed to be touched even when cited before a law court. She was distinguished by the long white stola, the cloak called palla, and her hair divided into six plaits, with woollen ribbons (vittae) wound round it.

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

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