CHLAMYS, in Antiquity, a woollen cloak, or rather a scarf, worn by the Greeks as well as by the Oriental races with whom they were connected. It was sometimes of purple, inwrought with gold, and was the appropriate costume of military chiefs, though likewise used by other persons, by actors on the stage, and sometimes by children. It corresponded nearly to the Roman lacerna and paludamentum; and indeed the use of the chlamys itself was to some extent adopted by the Romans during the imperial period. The chlamys is frequently represented in the antique sculptures.