Abolla

Abolla

An Abolla was a cloak-like garment worn by Ancient Greeks and Romans. Nonius Marcellus quotes a passage of Varro to show that it was a garment worn by soldiers ("vestis militaris"), and thus opposed to the toga.

It was, however, not confined to military occasions, but was also worn in the city. It was especially used by the Stoic philosophers at Rome as the "pallium philosophicum", just as the Greek philosophers were accustomed to distinguish themselves by a particular dress. Hence the expression of Juvenal (iv.75) "facinus majoris abollae" merely signifies, "a crime committed by a very deep philosopher."

The term is the Latin form of "polytonic|ἀμβόλλα", i.e. "polytonic|ἀναβολή".

*GRA
*"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"

External links

* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Abolla.html Abolla] (article in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)


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