Paula
Paula ou Paulla, æ, f. , nom de femme : Mart. 1, 74, 1 ; 9, 5 || sainte Paule : Hier.
Palla, linteum quo tegitur altare. Rituale vetus Suession. apud Marten. Tract. de Rit. pag. 381 :
Dein imponat duos pannos super sacrosanctum altare,... in facie autem illa, quæ ad chorum respicit, duo manutergia tantummodo dependeant. Adhuc super omnia Paula addatur, super quam divina celebrentur. Deinde duæ Paulæ plicatæ ad cornu altaris ponantur.Vide Palla 2. et Pallium 2.
Dictum Bernardum in quadam fovea seu raterio posuerunt, ita aspere tormentando, quod Paulam seu humerum ab ejus humero disruperunt.
Paula , Ju'lia Corne'lia
the first wife Of Elagabalus, a lady, according to Herodian, of Very noble descent. The marriage, which was celebrated with great pomp at Rome, took place, it World appear A. D. 219, soon after the arrival of the youthful emperor from Asia. Paula was divoreed in the course of the following year, deprived of the title of Augusta, and reduced to a private station. Her subsequent history is unknown. (Herodian 5.6.1 D. C. 79.9; Eckhel vol. vii. p. 259.)
The latter coin was accidentally omitted in the article Elagabalus, and is therefore given here. [W.R]