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† mī̆tra, ae, f., = μίτρα.
- I. A headband, coif, turban of the Asiatics; in Greece and Rome worn only by women, except occasionally by effeminate young men: P. Clodius a crocotā, a mitrā … est factus repente popularis, Cic. Har. Resp. 21, 44; Plin. 35, 9, 35, § 58: picta lupa barbara mitra, Juv. 3, 66. Also worn by Bacchus, Prop. 4, 2, 31.
- II. A rope (late Lat.), Tert. Carm. de Jona et Ninive, 42; cf. Isid. 19, 4, 6.
mī̆trātus, a, um, adj. [mitra], wearing a turban, turbaned: mitrati chori, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 42: Arabes, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162: caput, Sid. Carm. 9, 2, 199; Sol. 33, 16.
† mithrax or mitrax, ācis, m., = μίθραξ, a Persian precious stone, Plin. 37, 10, 63, § 173; also called mithridax, Sol. 37.