Chlamys
 | Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. CHLAMYS, a short military cloak, as worn by the Greeks. Amongst the Romans this was the same as the paludamentum. The later was in fact a part of the military dress of the emperors, though sometimes worn by private individuals. Those who have undertaken to make a distinction between the two habiliments assert that the paludamentum was longer and larger than the chlamys. The Romans made it of coarse and thick wool for the common soldiers, and of finer wool for the officers. The emperors wore it of purple silk, ornamented with gold and precious stones. This great coat, or pelisse, was put on over the cuirass and fastened with a buckle on the right shoulder, so as to leave the movement of the arm perfectly free; and in fighting they wrapped the left arm in the folds of the chlamys, employing it as a defence to that part of the body. See Paludamentum. |
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Chlamys
| Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. CHLAMYS, a short military cloak, as worn by the Greeks. Amongst the Romans this was the same as the paludamentum. The later was in fact a part of the military dress of the emperors, though sometimes worn by private individuals. Those who have undertaken to make a distinction between the two habiliments assert that the paludamentum was longer and larger than the chlamys. The Romans made it of coarse and thick wool for the common soldiers, and of finer wool for the officers. The emperors wore it of purple silk, ornamented with gold and precious stones. This great coat, or pelisse, was put on over the cuirass and fastened with a buckle on the right shoulder, so as to leave the movement of the arm perfectly free; and in fighting they wrapped the left arm in the folds of the chlamys, employing it as a defence to that part of the body. See Paludamentum. |
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