ămictus (noun M) : amicio, orig.
* A throwing about or on one of a garment; hence
* The manner of dressing, fashion: amictum imitari alicujus,Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 91 (cf. Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 2): est aliquid in amictu,Quint. 11, 3, 156.
* Meton., abstr. pro concr., the garment itself that is thrown about or on, any clothing, a mantle, cloak, etc.: quam (statuam) esse ejusdem, status, amictus, anulus, imago ipsa declarat,Cic. Att. 6, 1, 17: frustra jam vestes, frustra mutatur amictus,Tib. 1, 8, 13: velut amictum mutabis eos,Vulg. Heb. 1, 12: duplex,made of a double texture,Verg. A. 5, 421: Tyrii,Ov. A. A. 2, 297: amictus corporis,Vulg. Eccli. 19, 27: nec amictu ora velabis,ib. Ez. 24, 17: gloriam dedit sanctitatis amictum, the garment of holiness, i. e. the sacred vestment, ib. Eccli. 50, 12 et saep.
* Trop.
* For other kinds of covering: caeli mutemus amictum, the air which surrounds us, i. e. to go into another region, * Lucr. 6, 1133: Phrygius,Verg. A. 3, 545: nebulae amictus,id. ib. 1, 412; Stat. Th. 1, 631: caecus,Sil. 12, 613: jam virides lacerate comas, jam scindite amictus,i. e. the herbage that clothes the ground, weeds,Col. 10, 70.
* Prov.: quem mater amictum dedit, sollicite custodire,i. e. not to give up the habits formed in early youth,Quint. 5, 14, 31.

ămictus, a, um, Part. of amicio.

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