SYNTHĔSIS

a garment frequently worn at dinner, and sometimes also on other occasions. As it was inconvenient to wear the toga at table, on account of its many folds, it was customary to have dre es especially appropriated to this purpose, called vestes coenatoriae , or coenatoria , accubitoria , or syntheses . The synthesis appears to have been a kind of tunic, an indumentum rather than an amictus . [ Amictus . ] That it was, however, an easy and comfortable kind of dre , as we should say, seems to be evident from its use at table above mentioned, and also from its being worn by all cla es at the Saturnalia , a season of universal relaxation and enjoyment. More than this respecting its form we cannot say; it was usually dyed with some colour, and was not white, like the toga. SȲRINX ( σύριγξ ), the Pan’s pipe, or Pandean pipe, was the appropriate musical instrument of the Arcadian and other Grecian shepherds, and was regarded by them as the invention of Pan, their tutelary god. When the Roman poets had occasion to mention it, they called it fistula . It was formed in general of seven hollow stems of cane or reed, fitted together by means of wax, having been previously cut to the proper lengths, and adjusted so as to form an octave; but sometimes nine were admitted, giving an equal number of notes. A syrinx of eight reeds is represented on p. 278 . IMG:6459379820872971714_ill359.jpg: Pan with a Syrinx. (Mus. Worsleyanum, pl. 9.)