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Fig. 88 in §2-i5. Pertsons of lower standing, especially workmen Avho were out of doors all day, wore a conical felt cap called the pilleKS, see the illustration in §175. It is probable that this was a survival of what had been in prehistoric times an essential part of the Koman dress, for it was preserved among the insignia of the oldest priesthoods, tlie Pontitices, Flamines, and Salii, and figured in the ceremony of manumission. Out of the city, that is, while traveling or Avhile in the coun...try, the upper classes, DRKSS AM) I'KRSONAL ORNAMKNTS 171 I. TirKPKTASL too, protected the head, cs})ecially against the .sun, witli a broad-b rimmed felt hat of foreign origin, the causia or 2)etasus. They are shown in Figs. 93 and 94. "^rhey were worn in the city also by the old and feeble, and in later times by all classes in the the- aters. In the house, of course, the head was left uncovered. The Hair and Beard. — The Komaus in early times wore 253 long hair and full beards, as did all uncivilized peoples.
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