LODIX
LODIX
dim. LODI´CULA (
σάγιον), a small shaggy blanket (
Juv.
7.66). Sometimes two lodices sewed together were used as the
coverlet of a bed (
Mart. 14.148). The Emperor
Augustus occasionally wrapped himself in a blanket of this description on
account of its warmth (Sueton.
Aug. 83). It was also used as
a carpet ( “ancilla lodiculam in pavimento diligenter
extendit,” Petron.
Sat. 20). The Romans
obtained these blankets from Verona (
Mart.
14.152). Their lodix was nearly, if not altogether, the same as the
sagulum worn by the Germans (Tac.
Germ. 6). [
SAGUM]
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