ventrale
ventrālĕ, is, n. (venter), ceinture : Plin. 8, 193.
Villosa ventralia, apud Plinium
lib. 8. cap. 48. Marcellus Empiric. : Uncta oleo lanula involutum in Ventrali
gestes. Ubi accipitur pro sacculo, seu crumena, sub ventrem appensa. Ventrālé
(κοιλιόδεσμος). The ancient representation of the sash which in our time has begun to be worn by men in warm weather (Pliny , Pliny H. N. viii. 73). It was a square piece of cloth tied around the loins and over the abdomen, sometimes for medical purposes and sometimes for comfort. It was also arranged so as to be used for the purposes of a money-belt (Dig. xlviii. 20, 6).