capital
capital, a capital offence, crime punishable by death or exile
Parisius,
in studio cujus Capital jam olim fuisse perhibetur, morari non sinatis. Glaber
lib. 3. cap. 8. de M. Heriberto Aurelianensi : Capitale Scholæ tenebat dominium.
Pœna Capitalis. Gloss. Gr. Lat. :
Tunc demum Capital perpessus forte Sacerdos, Æthera glauca petit devicta morte triumphans. Magnopere metuens fisci decreta nefandi, Insuper et Capital tremu'us formidat acerbum. Capital, est crimen capitis periculo dignum. Ita etiam nostri vocem hanc usurpant.
- capitalis, a capital offence, crime punishable by death or exile(civil death): quique non paruerit capital esto, C.(lex): praesidio decedere apud Romanos capital esse, L.: in sellā Regis consedisse capital foret, Cu.: capitalia ausi plerique, L.
CAPITALa kerchief of woollen (Varr. L. L. 5.130) or linen cloth (P. Diac. p. 57 M.), worn round the head by Roman women in early times, and, after it had gone out of general use, retained as part of the costume of certain priestesses (Varr. l. c.). Among these may have been the Vestals; a coin engraved by Saglio shows a kerchiefed female head and the letters V. V., i.e. Virgo Vestalis; but not the Flaminica (Rich), whose coiffure was undoubtedly the TUTULUS.
[W.W]A kerchief of woollen or linen cloth worn round the head by Roman women in early times, and, after it had gone out of general use, retained as part of the costume of certain priestesses (Varr. L. L. v. 180). Among these were the Vestals; a coin engraved by Saglio shows a kerchiefed female head and the letters V. V. —i. e. Virgo Vestalis; but not the Flaminica (Rich), whose coiffure was undoubtedly the tutulus (q. v.).
The capital is the broad uppermost portion of a column or pilaster, directly under and supporting the entablature, and made up of two parts, the abacus and the echinus.
Each order has a distinctive capital, with the Doric and Ionic orders (see illustration) most common in Greece.