velamentum

velamentum
vēlāmentum, i, n. [id.], a cover, covering.
I.
Lit
A.
Infantis, Cels. 7, 29 fin.:

estque id aliquanto melius velamentum cerebro quam caro,

 id. 8, 4; cf. id. 7, 18.—
* B.
A veil, curtain, = velum, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 15, 2.—
C.
Velamenta, olive-branches wound about with woollen fillets, or rods wound about in like manner, which suppliants bore before them:

velamenta manu praetendens supplice,

 Ov. M. 11, 279:

ramos oleae ac velamenta alia supplicum porrigentes orare, ut reciperent sese,

 Liv. 24, 30, 14 Weissenb. ad loc.; 25, 25, 6; 30, 36, 5; 36, 20, 1; cf. id. 29, 16, 6. velamenta et infulas praeferentes, Tac. H. 1, 66; v. velo, I. fin. —
II.
Trop., a cover, concealment, screen:

quaerentes libidinibus suis patrocinium aliquid seu velamentum,

 Sen. Vit. Beat. 12, 4:

pudoris,

 Lampr. Elag. 11:

ami citiae,

 pretence, Amm. 19, 11, 4.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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