Heralds wear the attributes of Hermes—the petasos, caduceus, and high boots, with a chlamys or short girt chiton.
Both wear the long Doric chiton, with a mantle or himation thrown over it; but men often wear the smaller chlamys over the shoulders in place of the himation.
The diadem could be worn round the kausia; the chlamys offered scope for gorgeous embroidery; and the boots might be crimson felt (see the description of Demetrius' chlamys and boots, Plut.
A boy emerging into manhood leaves his petasos and strigil and chlamys to Hermes, the god of games.
Nor lastly, when, with chlamys thrown upon his shoulder and petasos slung from his neck, he leads souls to Hades, caduceus in hand, has he lost this quality of youth and lustre.
That in configuration it resembles a chlamys is also clear, from the fact that at either end of its length, the extremities taper to a point.
Thou must therefore wear thy chlamys modestly; thou must keep an eye on the judgment seat of the proconsul, and never lose sight of the sandals above thy crown.
A beardless male figure stands to the front, with a chlamys on the raised left arm, and with a cup held out in his right hand.
An amplechlamys hangs from the shoulders of the Lapith, and he wears boots.
Nude figure of boy, standing, with chlamys thrown over his left shoulder.
Some of the figures are nude; others wear the chlamys only, the chiton only, or the two garments together.
A chlamys hangs from the right arm of the Lapith, and passes behind his back.
A chlamys hangs down from the left arm of the Lapith.
The drapery is a small chlamys fastened by a brooch, but at present worn about the loins.
A young warrior, wearing a cuirass over a short tunic, a chlamys and a helmet, clasps the hand of a seated woman.
An ample chlamys is shown falling at the back of the Lapith.
Others have a chlamys wound round the left arm or hanging loose from the body.
A nude male figure, Tryphon, stands, half turned to the left, having a chlamys above the left arm, and a strigil in the right hand.
This is a cast from the first of the metopes of the west side, and represents a figure mounted on a horse, moving to the right, with the right hand drawn back as if aiming a spear, and having a chlamys flying behind.
Figure of a youth, a son of one Diodoros, standing, with a chlamys wrapped about his left arm.
The boy is nude except for a chlamys thrown over his left shoulder, which is probably that of the older youth.
The chlamys was a heavy woolen shawl, red or purple.
These brooches were like modern safety pins, and were used to fasten the chlamysat the shoulder.
Armed as if for battle, he prepared for the row to the scene of misery, and requested Hermon to buckle a coat of mail under his chlamys and put on the sword he gave him.
The Greek military chlamys appears in two forms--the paludamentum of the general (e.
The inside of this chlamys is seen to be of changing colours and embroidered with gold.
His chlamysis blue without, and within all green and embroidered with gold.
Agrippina wore a beautiful chlamys woven with gold, and the rest of the people whatever pleased their fancy.
Claudius himself wearing a chlamys gave a contest of armed men at the camp.
At Rome he might assume the chlamys and the sandals, but at the head of his Frankish host he strictly adhered to the customs of his country, and was beloved by his people as the very ideal of their own character and habits[78].
Stay, I want Miss Rothesay; no one else knows how to put on that purple chlamys properly, and I must work at drapery to-day.
But beneath the purple chlamys poor little Olive still trembled and grieved.
The blasted ears announce famine, and the torn chlamys .
To judge by his new chlamysthe rich widow must have departed this life, and the happy heirs paid for the epitaph in no niggardly fashion.
You appeared to him in a torn chlamysand crowned with blasted ears of corn.
In the evening the prefect Barbatio, making his way in, without any pretence at ceremony, ordered him to take off the chlamys of a Caesar and don the simple tunic and paludamentum, or ordinary cloak, of a common soldier.
Crosses embroidered in gold adorned the violet chlamys of Avinius, and were even sewn on his crimson leather shoes.
His face was clear and firm, and he wore an air of assumed indifference His garb was the simple whitechlamys of the philosophers.
The litter was laid gently down; and Julian stooping, cautiously lifted a corner of the old chlamys of the priest, which covered both bodies.
The chlamys was therefore at this time a strictly military dress.
When he actually went in he donned a pure purple dress sprinkled with gold, assuming also a similar chlamys of Greek pattern and a crown made of Indic gems and gold, and carried such a herald's staff as Mercury does.
At times he wore the purple chlamysand girded on a sword: again he assumed dark colored clothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chlamys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
