pillĕātus (pīle-), a, um, adj. [pilleus],
covered with the pilleus or felt-cap , wearing the pilleus (this was worn in Rome at entertainments, shows, and festivals, esp. at the Saturnalia; slaves received it at their manumission as a token of freedom): pilleati aut lana alba velatis capitibus volones epulati sunt, Liv. 24, 16 fin. : rex, id. 45, 44: colonorum turba pilleatorum currum sequentium, like a general's freedmen, id. 33, 23: nec per omnia nos similes esse pilleatae turbae voluisses, i. e. the Roman populace , who wore the pilleus at the Saturnalia, Sen. Ep. 18, 3; so, pilleata Roma, Mart. 11, 6, 4: tantum gaudium (mors Neronis) publice praebuit, ut plebs pilleata totā urbe discurreret (as a sign of liberation from slavery). Suet. Ner. 57: ad Parthos procul ite pilleatos, the bonneted Parthians , of whose ordinary apparel the pilleus was a part, Mart. 10, 72, 5; cf. Aur. Vict. Caes. 13, 3; Paul. Nol. Carm. 17, 242: pilleati fratres, i. e. Castor and Pollux , Cat. 37, 2: pilleati servi. bonneted slaves , i. e. slaves offered for sale with a pilleus on, to indicate that the seller did not warrant them, Gell. 7, 4, 1 sqq.