sudarium

sūdārĭum, ii, n. [sudor],

• a cloth for wiping off perspiration, a handkerchief, Cat. 12, 14; 25, 7; Mart. 11, 39, 3; Petr. 67, 5: sudario candido tergere frontem, Quint. 6, 3, 60; 11, 3, 148; Suet. Ner. 25; 48; 51; Val. Max. 9, 12, 7; Ap. Apol. p. 309, 28.

sūdārium, iī, n. (sudo), das Schweißtuch, Taschentuch, Saetaba sudaria, Catull.: sudario candido frontem tergere, Quint.: sudario frontem siccare, Quint.: sudario manus tergere, Petron.: ante faciem obtendere sudarium, Suet.: sudario os et fauces suas coartare, Val. Max.: iam mihi nigrescunt tonsā sudaria barbā, Mart.: facies illius sudario erat ligata (zugebunden), Vulg.

sudarium [CL] 1 piece of cloth used as napkin, facecloth, handkerchief, or sim.; b (for use in handling liturg. vessels); c (head cloth or shroud for corpse). servus ‥ acceptam Domini pecuniam in ~io reposuit Bede Luke 564D; 9‥ sudorium, swatlin WW; ad extremum sacerdos favonem in sinistrum brachium ponit, qui et mappula et ~ium vocatur, per quod olim sudor et narium sordes extergebantur Hon. GA 606D; c1325 vxx xv uln. et di. de linea tela pro femoralibus, ~iis, et coopertura cervicalium Ac. Durh. 165; lene sive linee due, quas scilicet ~ia seu pannos rasure vocamus Cust. Cant. 401; ~ium, a mokedore WW.  b altare ~io et uno tantum pallo coopertum Rit. Gilb. 36; 1388 unus casus de panno rubio aureo cum duobus ~iis de panno albo vocato tartaryn pro oblacione facienda et pro patena tenenda (Invent. Westm.) Arch. LII 270; 1389 pro iiij ~iis emptis pro summo altari Fabr. York 129; 1401 item v panni sive ~ii pro reliquiis portandis Ac. Durh. 452.  c toto corpore lavato, capite ~io circumdato, oblata super sanctum pectus posita ‥ corpus ‥ in basilica deposuerunt V. Cuthb. IV 13; lotus ‥ vestiatur staminia nova, vel noviter lota, et cuculla, et in capite ejus ponatur ~ium, in modum capitii de staminia factum Lanfr. Const. 184; debent ‥ mortui sepeliri ~iis induti Beleth RDO 159. 159A; corpus Dominicum ‥ antequam sepeliretur fuit aromatizatum et lintheo sive ~io involutum Sæwulf 66; partem crucis Dominice, ~ium quoque Domini, et camisiam beate Virginis Capgr. Hen. 10. 2 horse-cloth, saddle-cloth. 1180 pro ‥ ij panellis et iiij suariis et iiij capistris ‥ summariorum Pipe 150; carentivillo tergum [equi] sit coopertum, postmodum ~io, vel suario [gl.: suere, house, huce, de une osue, sudarrio, suarie] secundum quosdam, deinde panello Neckam Ut. 99; de equis ‥ hec ~ia, çuiere Gl. AN Glasg. f. 21va; nunc de equis ‥ hoc ~ium, suarie Gl. AN Ox. 399; an horse howyse, sandalium, ~ia CathA.

sūdārĭum, (13) ĭī, n. (sudo), mouchoir : Catul. 12, 14 ; Quint. 6, 3, 60 || suaire : Eccl.

sudarium , ii. n.
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sūdārium ī, n

• sudor, a handkerchief: sudaria Saetaba, Ct.

SUDARIUM

SUDARIUMa linen handkerchief, carried in the hand or in the sinus, answering to our pocket-handkerchief, but primarily intended, as the word implies, to wipe the sweat from the brow or face (Quintil. 6.3, 60; 11.3-Z2, 148). It was a comparatively modern introduction, when fine linen came into use at Rome, which may be placed in the time of Cicero (Cic. Ver. 5.5. 6, 146; Hehn, Kulturpflanzen, 146): with this agree the mention of the sudarium being used by Vatinius (Quintil. l. c.) and the sudaria Saetaba (of Spanish linen) spoken of by Catullus (Catul. 12, 14; 25, 7). The word is borrowed by Hellenistic writers as σουδάριον (Luke 19.20), for which Pollux (7.71) says that the older names were ἡμιτύβιον (Aristoph. Plut. 729) and καψιδρώτιον. The later name at Rome was orarium (Vopisc. Aurel. 48), and other less common names are found, such as facitergium, manupiarium.

Besides its use for wiping the face, it was worn round the neck (Petron. 67; Suet. Nero 51), and was in the later period (as orarium) waved in the circus to signify applause (Vopisc. l. c., cf. κατασείειν ταὶς ὀθόναις ἐν θεάτροις: Euseb. H. E. 7.30), for which the lappet of the toga had formerly served (Ov. Am. 3.2, 74). Göll (Becker-Göll, Gallus, 3.268) denies that it was used to wipe the nose, which operation, he says, was performed in the most primitive fashion. It is difficult to prove or disprove this as a universal rule; and the passage which he cites from Mart. 7.37is capable of either interpretation. The word emungo may imply the use of a handkerchief or the hand alone, the latter probably in Plautus, and certainly in Anth. Pal. 7.134, Diog. Laert.: but it may be questioned whether the use of the pocket-handkerchief was not coming in under the Empire, and the passage in Auct. ad Herenn. 4.54, 67, seems to imply this even for the late Republic: that it was so in the time of Arnobius is clear from the etymology of the word mucinium, which (2.23) he uses as=orarium.

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Sudarium

(καψιδρώτιον). A handkerchief for wiping away the perspiration from the face (Quint. vi. 3. 60). See mucinum.