A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

POPAE;

were such Persons as attended the Sacrifices, whose Business it was to provide Vi∣ctims, and to kill them after they had knocked them down: They were half naked, their Shoul∣ders, Arms, and upper Part of their Bodies be∣ing uncovered as far as their Navels, and the rest covered to the Mid-leg with a Linnen A∣pron, or the Skins of the Sacrifices, wearing a Crown upon their Heads which was usually made of Lawrel: Thus they were represented on Tra∣jan's Column: But in the mean time there are other ancient Figures which represent them with a Priest's Albe reaching down from their Arm∣pits and tucked up, to which their sacrificing Knife was fastned: This Apron was called Limus, because at the lower End of it, it had a Purple Welt which was sowed in such a manner as repre∣sented a Serpent. And this Servius tells us upon that Verse in the 12th Eneid of Virgil.

Velati limo & verbenâ tempora vincti.

Limus, says he, vestis est quâ ab umbilico usque ad pedes teguntur pudibunda Poparum: haec autem vestis in extremo sui purpuram limam id est flexuo∣sam habet: unde & nomen accepit, nam limum obli∣quum dicimus.