veil
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the veil · a helmet · a shield · covering of the head · veil of the head · veiled
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Alcestis
The covering over the mysterious woman's face, removed by Heracles to reveal Alcestis.
(removes the veil).
De Cultu Feminarum
Head covering commanded for women, opposed to elaborate hairstyling
I believe, lest the heads of certain women be seen.
De Oratione
The veil, the physical head-covering required of women in the argument over dress.
Likewise, when he says that nature itself teaches that females must be veiled — nature, which assigned the hair to women for a covering and an ornament — has not the same covering and the same honour of the head been ascribed to virgins too?
De Virginibus Velandis
The head covering required of women, described as protective armor and as an object whose proper extent and manner of wearing is specified in detail
I beseech you—whether mother, or sister, or virgin daughter, that I may speak according to the names of the ages—veil your head:
For some, with turbans and woollen bands, do not veil the head, but bind it up, protected indeed from the brow, but bare where the head properly is.
It flees to the veil of the head as to a helmet, as to a shield, to protect its good against the strokes of temptations, against the darts of scandals, against suspicions and whisperings and rivalry, and envy itself too.