FASCIA, in antiquity, a thin fash which the Roman women wrapped round their bodies, next to the skin, in order to make them slender. Something of this sort seems also to have been in use amongst the Grecian ladies, if we can depend upon the representation given by Terence, Eun. act. ii. sc. 4.
Haud similis est virginum nostrarum, quas matres student Demissis humeris esse—vinculo corpore, ut graciles fiant.