Calautica
Calautica (in some MSS. calantica or calvatica), a female head-dress, described by Nonius, p. 537, as tegmen muliebre, quod capiti innectitur.
Cf. Cic. Fragm. in Clod. et Cur. 5: quum calautica capiti accommodaretur,
where it appears to be used in the same sense as mitra. So Serv. ad Aen. 9.616, and Ulp. Dig. 34, 2, 25.10: ornamentorum haec: vittae, mitrae, semimitrae, calautica.
Gloss. Philox., however, explains it as εἶδος ζώνης.
Ausonius (Perioch. Od. v.) used calautica as a translation of κρήδεμνον. From this and other considerations Rich is led to identify the two words as signifying a head-dress with lappets hanging down to the shoulders on both sides, so that they might be drawn together to conceal the face (Hom. Od. 1.334; II. 14.184; and Eustath. ad loc.); but its form is quite uncertain.
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.