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- not comparableAnkle-length; reaching to the ankles.
His wife, Sterope, is on his l. side; she is of generous proportions, in a talaric tunic folded up over the chest.
1964, Robert Boulanger, Greece, page 5232 more examples
Dionysos, clad in a white, talaric chitôn, spotted with black, over which he wears a peplos, his hair ivy-crowned and falling in tresses, his beard long and pointed; before him a female figure, Aproditê, clad in an embroidered, talaric chitôn falling over the girdle in a kolpos, over which hangs the peplos;
1851, Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British MuseumThe drivers appear at first sight to be women, but are in reality meant for young men in talaric chitons or tunics.
1897, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 353 - not comparableRelating to the ankles.
In a series of 24 patients with displaced fractures of the talaric portion of the os calcis, 15 patients were primarily treated conservatively; a few of these patients had early subtalar fusion.
1979, Kjell Matre, “Treatment of Fractures with Displacement of the Talaric Portion of the Os Calcis”, in Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, volume 50
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