CALAU´TICA
CALAU´TICA (in some MSS.
calantica or
calvatica), a female head-dress, described by Nonius, p.
537, as “tegmen muliebre, quod capiti innectitur.” Cf.
Cic. Fragm. in Clod. et Cur.
5: “quum calautica capiti accommodaretur,” where it
appears to be used in the same sense as
mitra.
So
Serv. ad Aen. 9.616, and Ulp.
Dig. 34, 2, 25.10: “ornamentorum haec: vittae,
mitrae, semimitrae, calautica.” Gloss. Philox., however, explains
it as
εἶδος ζώνης.
Ausonius (
Perioch. Od. v.) used
calautica as a translation of
κρήδεμνον. From this and other considerations Rich is led to
identify the two words as signifying a head-dress with lappets hanging down
to the shoulders on both sides, so that they might be drawn together to
conceal the face (
Hom. Od. 1.334;
II. 14.184; and Eustath.
ad
loc.); but its form is quite uncertain.
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J.H.F]
