sackcloth
SACKCLOTH
linteum crasso filo (as coarse cloth): toga lugubris (as mourning). To be in sackcloth and ashes in luctu et squalore esse (Metell. ap. Cic.); sordidatum esse (Cic.).
linteum crasso filo (as coarse cloth): toga lugubris (as mourning). To be in sackcloth and ashes in luctu et squalore esse (Metell. ap. Cic.); sordidatum esse (Cic.).
sackcloth: the coarse cloth of which sacks are made, esp. worn next the skin by way of penance.
I. The material and dress itself:
1. saccus, i, m.: v.SACK : or, with special reference to the material, (i.) properly, of hemp, *cannăbum (sc. textum), vestis cannabĭna: (ii.) of flax, linteum, i, n. (esp. used for sailcloth): v. CANVAS .
2. = hair-cloth, cĭlĭcium, i, n. (κιλίκιον), the goat's hair cloth made in Cilicia for tents: Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, 95: Liv. 38, 7, post med.
II. Fig.: for mourning and mortification: tŏga sordida: in sack-*cloth and ashes, sordidatus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, 62: v. Dict. of Ant. s. v.Toga in luctu et squalore, Metell. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 1.
I. The material and dress itself:
1. saccus, i, m.: v.
2. = hair-cloth, cĭlĭcium, i, n. (κιλίκιον), the goat's hair cloth made in Cilicia for tents: Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 38, 95: Liv. 38, 7, post med.
II. Fig.: for mourning and mortification: tŏga sordida: in sack-*cloth and ashes, sordidatus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 25, 62: v. Dict. of Ant. s. v.