Crossword-Solution: PETASOS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Greeks called it, therefore, not only the born or blooming thing, but the spread or expanded thing--"[Greek: petalon]." Pindar calls the beginnings of quarrel, "petals of quarrel." Recollect, therefore, this form, Petalos; and connect it with Petasos, the expanded cap of Mercury.

The sentiment of travelling is always conveyed in the ancient bas-reliefs and vase paintings by certain conventional signs or accessories bestowed upon the figure represented, viz., a broad-brimmed and low-crowned hat ([Greek: petasos], Lat.

Another kind of cradle, in the form of a shoe, is shown containing the infant Hermes, recognizable by his petasos.

Hats, which were as a rule worn only by youths, workmen and slaves, were of circular shape, and either of some stiff material, as the Boeotian hat observed in terra-cottas from Tanagra, or of pliant material which could be bent down at the sides like the [Greek: petasos] worn by Hermes and sometimes even by women.

The riders on the Panathenaic vase wear the typical dress of the Athenian ephebos, a flat, broad-brimmed hat called petasos, and a bright-bordered chiton fastened over the shoulder.