velamenta
velamenta, olive-branches wound with woollen fillets
Found Velamenta with different capitalization.
Velamenta neuter accusative plural, neuter nominative plural, neuter vocative plural of velamentum
vēlāmenta ōrum, n
- velo.—As an emblem borne by suppliants, olive-branches wound with woollen fillets: Velamenta manu praetendens supplice, O.: legati cum infulis et velamentis venerunt precantes, L.
Velamenta
(plural). Objects carried by suppliants as symbols of their condition, such as olivebranches, fillets of wool, caducei, etc. The Greek term is ἱκετήρια (Livy, xxiv. 30; Tac. Hist. i. 66).