Amictus
Amictus, AMICULUM. The Greek words corresponding to amicire and amictus are ἐπιβάλλεσθαι and ἐπίβλημα, to induere and indutus ἐνδύεσθαι and ἔνδυμα. So Pollux, 7.50, speaks of the πέπλος as ἔσθημα διπλοῦν τὴν χρείαν, ὡς ἐνδῦναι τε καὶ ἐπιβαλέσθαι; meaning, that it was used sometimes as an inner garment or χιτών, sometimes as an outer garment or ἱμάτιον. [TUNICA; PALLIUM.] Hence the verbal nouns amictus and indutus, even without any further specification, denote respectively the outer and inner clothing. (See Verg. A. 3.545, 5.521, with Conington's notes; Tib. 1.8, 13; Corn. Nep. Cim. 4, Dat. 3.2; Tac. Ann. 16.4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.