circumtextus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

circum-textus, a, um, Part. [texo],

woven all around : velamen, Verg. A. 1, 649. —Subst.: circum-textum , i, n., a garment inwoven with purple : et quod amictui habet purpuram circum, vocant circumtextum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 132; cf. Isid. Orig. 19, 24, 10.

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