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.