The clavus was a purple border, by which the senators, and other orders, with the magistrates, were distinguished; the breadth of the stripe corresponding with their rank.
Footnote 70: The Latus Clavus was a broad stripe of purple, on the front of the toga.
For he used the Latus Clavus [70] with fringes about the wrists, and always had it girded about him, but rather loosely.
I shall discuss the Latin Clavus and the Chrysoclavus amongst ecclesiastical embroideries, pp.
Trabea, which on the Roman consular ivory diptychs of several centuries is so invariably embroidered with this same clavus pattern (plate 70) that we must conclude that it had a meaning and a tradition.
Bock gives his authorities for saying that the clavus was sometimes an applied border, sometimes a loose stripe hanging down in front, as may be seen in two consular diptychs given in plate 70.
Hemelytra with a quadrangular or discoidal areole in the corium near the apex of the clavus (fig.
On the other hand, the Gulf of Bothnia and the Åland archipelago are frozen over for a long time in winter, and it might be supposed that Clavus had heard reports of this.
Clavus may have found that Bergen lay in latitude 60° and so placed the town on the west coast of Norway in this latitude according to his own scale (on the right-hand side of the Nancy map, see p.
Clavus has used the ice as a transition between the representation of his older map, where Thule was part of the mainland, and that of the later one, where it was made into an island.
It is therefore possible that Clavus may have obtained the latitudes of some places, such as Stavanger and Bergen, from his work; but in any case he cannot have got the latitude of the southern point of Greenland from it.
It is unnecessary to assume that the too northerly latitude of Greenland is derived from the Clavus map, where its southern point lies in 62° 40' N.
Clavus made use of Italian compass-charts as his model for the delineation of the south coast of Scandinavia, and that he also took names from them.
If the cartographer was acquainted with the representation of Greenland on the Clavus maps, the probability becomes still greater that he had definite authority for his west coast, since it differs from that of the Clavus maps.
When it affects a small defined part on the parietal bone on one side, it is generally termed Clavus hystericus, and is always I believe owing to a diseased dens molaris.
And in one remarkable case, which came under my care at Westminster Hospital, the resemblance to clavus was most misleading: H.
One circumstance in connection with well-marked clavus appears worth noting, as somewhat differentiating it from migraine.
Under such circumstances the most complete anaemia was developed, and very often the patient became a martyr to clavus in its severest forms.
The adjective hystericus is an improper and inadequate definition of the circumstances under which clavus arises.
Both migraine and clavus are often met with in persons who have long passed their youth; but their first attacks have nearly always occurred during the period of development.
In women, the exhaustion of haemorrhageal parturition, or of menorrhagia, and also the depression produced by over-suckling, are frequent causes of the recurrence of a migraine or clavus to which the patient had been subject when young.
One of the very worst cases of clavus which I ever saw happened after haemorrhage in labor; the pain was so severe and prostrating that it appeared likely the patient would become insane.
The Latus Clavus was a broad stripe of purple, on the front of the toga.
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