Note 498 — Chapter V · PERSONAL ORNAMENTS.
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"The translators of the Greek poets generally interpret μίτρη by the zone or girdle, (of plaited rushes,) which among the Greeks and Romans was not properly a virgin zone, because it was to be worn by the wife till it became too short."—"In later times the unbinding the coronet and unbuckling the girdle, in putting the bride to bed, were so nearly connected with each other, that the zone and coronet were sometimes put for each other, and μίτρη applied to the former, as in the Argon. of Apoll. Rhod. b. 2. l. 287:—
———ᾧ ἔπι μούνῳ Μίτρην πρῶτον ἔλυσα καὶ ὕστατον."
—R. Jamieson's notes to Child Axelvold.