mantle (subs.) Copy link • mantle (subs.): palla (lady's): worn out of doors (Varr. L. L. 5, 30, 131): a gorgeous m. covers their feet, tegit p. superba pedes, Ov. Am. 3, 13, 26: Mart. For other kinds of mantle, v. cloak.
mantle (v.) Copy link • mantle (v.): i. e. to overspread: perh. suffundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3: cf. Virg. G. 1, 430, si (Luna) virgineum suffuderit ore ruborem, "if she m. her face with maidenly red:" so pass. refl., suffundi ora (acc. of closer defin.) rubore, Ov. M. 1, 484.