Pallium

(pal'le-um.) [L., a cloak.] (Antiq.) The mantle of the Greeks, which, from its being le cumbersome and trailing than the toga of the Romans,by degrees superseded the latter in the country and the camp. Our Fig. 516 is copied from a bas-relief, representing a Roman emperor a isting at a sacrifice, and clothed in this garment, which on these occasions was always drawn over the head, in token of religious reverence.-TheP., or pall, was also the woollen mantle which the Roman emperors were accustomed, from the 4th cent., to send to the patriarchs and primates of the empire, and which was worn as a mark of hierarchical dignity.(Eccl.) An ornamented vestment sent by the Pope to the archbishops of the Rom. Cath. Church, to the 4 Latin patriarchs, and sometimes to simple bishops. It consists of a narrow-flapped collar edged Fig. 516.- PALLIUM. with lead, covered with black silk, falling down before and behind, and decorated with small cro es. It is made of the wool of the ten white lambs ble ed at Rome on the festival of St. Agnes. [s. 679]