On the right a wounded Amazon has sunk to the ground, and is supported by a companion who wears the chitonsplit at the side (schistos), like that of the Iris of the east pediment of the Parthenon.
The figure wore a chitonwith girdle, and, apparently, a close-fitting helmet or leather cap.
Left breast and part of left side of female figure wearing a chiton girt at the waist.
Both figures wear a long chiton with sleeves, over which is a long full garment reaching nearly to the feet; over this again is a diploidion girt at the waist.
Under the cuirass appears a chitonwithout sleeves.
The figure wears a sleevedchiton with a diploidion and a veil.
On the right is a bearded old man, wearing chiton and himation, with staff in right hand and left hand extended.
A woman wearing a sleeveless chiton and a mantle, raises her right hand wrapped in the mantle to her head.
The sleeves of thechiton are bordered with a key pattern, which is doubled along the seam.
She wears a chiton reaching to the knees, over which is a chlamys, and buskins; her hair is drawn back from her face.
The usual dress is a sleeveless chiton and a cloak.
The figure wears a chiton with sleeves, and a mantle.
Torso from the breasts to the knees of a female figure, wearing a fine clingingchiton and a mantle.
The figure wears a short sleeveless chiton with a diploidion which is confined under the girdle, to facilitate rapid motion.
A mounted horseman with a chiton and a cloak flying behind him stands on the left of an altar, at which a draped youth makes a libation.
The shell of Mollusca on this view is not to be derived from one of the plates of Chiton, but the plates of Chiton are to be derived from the segmentation of a primitive simple shell.
The external characters of the embryo of Chiton have long been known through the classical observations of Loven (No.
The chief peculiarity of the larva of Chiton (apart from the peculiar ventral plate) consists in the elongation and dorsal segmentation of the posterior part of the body.
The chiton is at first straight, with rigid stripes or casual patches of purple; then patterns are incised or painted in white; the waist is usually very small, and often bound tightly with a broad girdle.
Persephone, though simpler in decoration, show an even greater richness of treatment in the delicate lines of the chiton and the graceful fall of the mantle.
At all times there was a tendency to treat the drapery in masses of colour, and this we see especially in the Tanagra figures, in which the chiton is almost invariably blue, the himation rose-pink.
The women wore the chiton and the himation and in addition they wore another garment over the chiton, called the crocotos, which sometimes had sleeves and was of a rich purple or saffron color and frequently had a broad border of embroidery.
The chitonwas fastened about the waist by a ribbon or girdle.
Sometimes the chiton was made with two sleeves, with one sleeve, or with short sleeves.
He lamented having lost the silver quiver when he was upset into the water and regretted that the rose-colored chiton should afterwards have suffered a reduction in length at the hands of his pursuer.
Strong as a whirlwind he cuts in pieces the pergola garlands which were left hanging after Autumn's Bacchanalian feast, and, brutal as a savage, he tears asunder the leaf-woven chiton which clothed the Dryad of the grove.
So close were the twain, the orator’s trailing chiton almost fell on Glaucon’s face.
To fling this over Glaucon’s rent chiton took an instant, another instant to clap on the fugitive’s head a brimless red cap.
He wore his green chiton with a rakishness that proved him anything but a dandy.
The boy covered his face with his ragged chiton and wept.
He tore his chiton from top to bottom and wrapped it about his mouth and nose.
Pontius threw his pallium over the chiton he commonly wore at his work and went forward to meet the sovereign of the world, whose arrival had been announced to him in the prefect's letter.
Fully determined on extreme measures, he tightened the girdle which held his chiton above his hips and once more went out into the night to judge by the stars what hour it was.
He had stolen things on several occasions; but the brands and scars which he bore upon his person were hidden by his new chiton and Keraunus felt in himself the power to cure him of his evil propensities.
At these words the steward's hand dropped from the chiton of the half-throttled dealer.
My slave is waiting outside, and can hide it under his chiton as far as my kitchen door, for if he carried it openly the connoisseurs passing by might covet the priceless treasure, and we must protect ourselves from the evil eye.
Over the chiton is the aegis, much less long behind than in earlier art (cf.
The pose and drapery show what Attic sculpture had made of the old Peloponnesian type of standing female figure in the Doric chiton (cf.
He drew a scroll from the folds of his chiton and tossed it into her lap.
Her tiny feet were shod with silken sandals and her yellow chiton disclosed the rounded grace of her delicate limbs and the willowy suppleness of her figure.
Her chiton of fine linen clung in graceful folds to her slim figure, and she trembled so violently that she could scarcely stand.
The folds of her pure white chiton left her warm arms bare to the shoulder and defined the youthful lines of her supple figure.
Her face was as colorless as the linen chiton that clung to her figure in the rain, disclosing the maidenly outline of her bosom.
She wore a chiton of shimmering, transparent fabric from the looms of Amorgos.
Then one of them caught sight of the abandoned chiton and the spell was broken.
One bare, white arm hung inertly between the iron fingers, and the snowy chiton shone through the smoke against the dark bulk of the monstrous image.
Her chiton of fine white wool, edged with purple, outlining her figure, indicated that it had lost some of its roundness.
Clearchus unclasped the fibula that fastened the chiton upon his shoulder and drew his feet out of his sandals.
He wore the conical cap with the uraeus, the scarf across his bare breast, the short chiton and heavy sandals, by which his form was familiar to even the boys as well as to the great councillors of Tyre.
His hair-dresser was ready with his ointment; his wardrobe-keeper with the special chiton and tunic which he knew his master liked.
An hour later a white chiton might have been seen hanging heavily in the sultry air from the limbs of a juniper bush, that grew out of a sandy mound between two great boulders on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
You are more goodly-appearing with your sailor's cap and coarse chitonthan in these fashions of Tyre.
The Hellene on the pedestal took a cloth from the hand of one of the female attendants, and beckoned to the boy, who obediently drew through his girdle the short blue chiton which hung only to his knees, and sprang upon the platform.
It appears clearly that the whole chiton consists of one piece.
In antique pictures women sometimes wear a second shorter chiton over the other.
Together with the open and half-open kinds of the chiton, we also find the closed double-chiton flowing down to the feet.
Above the girdle the chiton was arranged in shorter or longer picturesque folds.
The whole chiton is sometimes covered with star or dice patterns, particularly on vases of the archaic style.
They cover the chiton from the hem upwards to the knee, and above the girdle up to the neck, as is seen in the chiton worn by the spring goddess Opora, in a vase-painting.
Round the hips the chiton was fastened by means of a girdle, through which the bottom part of the dress trailing along the ground was pulled up just far enough to let the toes be visible.
A development of the long chitonis the double-chiton.
Identical with this in form is the chiton worn by Doric women.
Her white chiton was mussed and a trifle soiled; and her thick black hair was tied back in a low knot, so as to cover what were two very shapely little ears.
The clothes she wore were no longer stola and palla, but chiton and himation.
His dress was rich, yet rude, his chiton and cloak short, but of choice Milesian wool and dyed scarlet and purple; around his neck dangled a very heavy gold chain set with conspicuously blazing jewels.
Presently, out of the throng of officers and court magnates on the quay, stepped Achillas in a splendid panoply of gilded armour, with a purple chiton flowing down from beneath.
Women are frequently represented on vases[124] wearing over the long Ionic chiton a short and sometimes very ornate garment, which cannot be described as a himation.
Diagram of the Sleeved Chiton with Overfold 66 Fig.
The himation worn over the Ionic chiton presents considerable variety of shape and arrangement.
That the long Ionic chiton with sleeves was worn by men as well as women, is abundantly evident from the monuments.
The wearing of the unpinned himation over the Ionic chiton is an instance of the blending of Doric and Ionic dress.
In classical times it was always worn over the short chiton by travellers and riders, and was the characteristic dress of Ephebi.
A good example of the men’s short chiton with overfold is to be seen on the vase of Brygos representing the exploits of Theseus.
There is a girdle, and, if one wishes, the skirt of the chiton may be pulled up through it, and allowed to hang down in front, giving the effect of a blouse.
He may well wear a purple-edged white chiton of fine Milesian wool, a brilliant scarlet himation, sandals with blue thongs and clasps of gold, and a chaplet of myrtle and violets.
Workingmen often wore no himation, and had a kind of chiton (an exömis) which was especially arranged to leave them with free use of their arms.
The chiton may be briefly described as an oblong of woolen cloth large enough to wrap around the body somewhat closely, from the neck down to just above the knees.
No shirts (unless the chitonbe one), no underwear.
The chiton became the mirror of the body," said the late writer Achilles Tatius.
A Greek lady again cannot imitate her husband, and appear in public in her chiton only.
Up to that time the "Dorian dress" had been universal, but the Athenians now gave up the use of garments fastened with pins or brooches, and adopted the linen chiton of the Ionians.
If worn without a girdle it went by the name of [Greek: chiton orthostadios].
The longchiton was regularly used by musicians (e.
Let him think so," she said, jerking her chiton up shorter through her girdle.
Daphne, to be sure, wore her chiton a little longer than Dion wore his, but when they were running or playing games she often pulled it up shorter through her girdle, so even that was not a sure sign.
Among the working classes the chiton was, of course, homespun, or of leather.
The girdle sometimes consisted of a cord, at others of metal bands, and by drawing the chiton over it, a double thickness of the fabric covered the vital organs of the body.
The female slaves put upon her a short white tunic of the finest AEgyptian linen, and a chiton of precious Sargonian byssin, of such a refulgent golden colour that the garment seemed woven out of the rays of the sun.
She irresolutely dons her sandals, puts a light chiton upon her naked body, throws a vail over it, and opens the door, leaving marks of myrrh upon the handles of the lock.
I looked at the drapery, which did not hang lower than the knee; at the girdle that barely indicated the waist; at the chiton gathered by a brooch on one shoulder, leaving bare the whole length of her richly moulded arm.
Lydia was lying on a couch with a shawl thrown over her knees; but the chiton loosely fastened over her right shoulder showed all the beauty of her bare arm.
The Greek Ghostgirl, quite solid now, looked around with sleepy fear and fumbled her apple-green chiton together at the throat.
At these words the steward's hand dropped from the chiton of the half- throttled dealer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chiton" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dress; scallop; shell; skirt
