Flaminica
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The flaminica Dialis' dress: Her dress consisted of a dyed purple robe (venenato operitur); her hair was plaited in a high topnot, the tutulus and bound with a purple fillets, vittae, the rica covered the hair, to which was attached a slip cut from a felix arbor (Fest. s.v. Tutulum, Rica; Varro, De Ling. Lat. VII.44).
Over the robe and rica was worn the purple venetatum and over this veil, the egg-yolk yellow flammeum, to indicate pepetual her pepetual state as a nova nupta.
