linen (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. linteum textum2. lintea vestis (drapery consisting of linen)3. līnum (flax4. in like manner are used, byssus, i, f. (denoting a very fine kind of flax or linen), carbāsus, i, f. (also a fine kind); with adjj. byssīnus, carbaseus or carbasĭnus • linen (subs.): 1. linteum textum: l. is the purest attire for religious purposes, l. textum purissimum est rebus divinis velamentum, Apul. Apol.: also simply linteum, Plin. 19, 1, 4: but linteum usu. denotes a piece of l., a linen cloth: to bruise through coarse l. (a coarse cloth), terere per crassum l., ib. 21, 18, 73: wares concealed under paper and l. (wrappings), merces chartis et linteis celatae, Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40. 2. lintea vestis (drapery consisting of linen): (they brought forward) frankincense, perfumes, and l., tus atque odores vestesque l., Cic. Verr. 5, 56, 146. (N.B.--In like manner, linea vestis, Plin. 12, 6, 13; lineus amictus, the latter only of external clothing, Tac. G. 17.) 3. līnum (flax: hence poet. cloth made of it): a bag made of very fine l., reticulum tenuissimo l., Cic. Verr. 5, 11, init.: robed in l., lino velatus, Virg. Aen. 12, 120. 4. in like manner are used, byssus, i, f. (denoting a very fine kind of flax or linen), carbāsus, i, f. (also a fine kind); with adjj. byssīnus, carbaseus or carbasĭnus: fine l., vestis byssina, tenui bysso texta, Apul.: they wear l., reaching to the feet, corpora usque pedes carbaso velant, Curt. 8, 9, post med.