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

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（κυκλάς). A luxurious robe, of a circular form, worn by Roman women, to the bottom of which a border was affixed, inlaid with gold (Propert. iv. [v.] 7, 40). It was made of some thin material, perhaps muslin. Alexander Severus, in his various attempts to restrain the luxury of his age, enacted that women should possess only one cyclas each, and that it should not be adorned with more than six unciae of gold (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 41). It continued to be a dress of ceremony in the fifth century, and was not used exclusively by women. It is related, among other instances of Caligula's effeminacy, that he sometimes appeared in public in a garment of this description (cycladatus, Calig. 52).

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

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