flammeum

Cinge tempora floribus suaue olentis amaraci, flammeum cape laetus, huc

Iunia weds with Manlius 1912

Tollite, O pueri, faces: flammeum uideo uenire. ite concinite in modum

Iunia weds with Manlius 1912

Jupiter; the bride always wore a flame-coloured veil (flammeum) and a crown encircled the brow of both bride and bridegroom.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

QVONIAM quieti corpus nocturno impetu dedi sopore placans artus languidos: uisust in somnis pastor ad me adpellere pecus lanigerum eximia pulchritudine, duos consanguineos arietes inde eligi5 praeclarioremque alterum immolare me: deine eius germanum cornibus conitier, in me arietare, eoque ictu me ad casum dari: exin prostratum terra, grauiter saucium, resupinum in caelo contueri maxime10 mirificum facinus: dextrorsum orbem flammeum radiatum solis linquier cursu nouo.

Tarquin's Dream 1912

Flaminica Dialis wore a purple garment called _rica_, and a red veil called _flammeum_, which was also worn by the bride in the religious ceremony of marriage.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

"_Inditum imperatori flammeum_, visi auspices, _dos et genialis torus et faces nuptiales; cuncta denique spectata, quae_ etiam _in femina_ nox operit."

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

This was in order to be dressed in a colour similar to that of the ‘flammeum,’ which was a veil of a bright yellow colour, worn by the bride.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

A fanfto Ambro - fio flammeum nupt Langobardica Lege, joculatores, qui '

Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italici populi referentibus post declinationem Rom. Imp. ad annum usque MD : omnia illustrantur et confirmantur ingenti copia diplomatum et chartarum veterum, nunc primùm ex archivis Italiae depromtarum, additis etiam nummis, chronicis, aliisque monumentis nunquam antea editis 1773

_bride's veil_ is the modern form of the _flammeum_ or large yellow veil which completely enveloped the Greek and Roman brides during the ceremony.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

See Claudian, Epithalamium of Honorius and Maria, 13, 211, 285 on the bride’s flammeum.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010