Vitta, vittæ, f. g. Vir. A filiet or hedband: a ribband: a garland.Lanea vitta.Ouid.Tenues vittæ Ouid.Spicea corona quæ vitta alba colligaretur. Plin. Præsignis vittis victima. Oui. A beast to be sacrisited adourned or trimmed with garlauds on his bead.Cærulis virtis stant mœstæ aræ.Virg.The mourning aulters stande couered with blew clothes, as at a funeral we vse with blacke.Leues vittæ.Ouid.Smooth head hands, or swathes. Mollicinge bæc altaria vitta.Virg.Ninea circundatur insula vitta. Vir. Alba vitra coercet capillos.Ouid.Hit haite is tyed vp with a white sillet.Euinctus virtis coronisq.Tacit.Exuta comam vittis. Sta. Hauing hir haire loose or vndone.Purpurea vitta ligat mœsta capita.Senec.Redimitus rempora vittis. Vir. Crinales soluere vittas. Oui. To vndo or loose hit haire that was tyed vp.Torta vitta stringir comas Luca.Ferales sumere vittas. Oui. To take such bonds or laces, as they bse in sacrislcing about bealss heds % wall be killed.Pia vitta tegere rempora.Virg.To put on his head suche a band as they vsed in deuout sacrislce.Albenti velatus tempora vitta.Ouid.Hauing his temples conered with a white bande or sillet.Velatus auro vittisque iuuencns.Virg.A steere haning hys hornes gilded, and garlands fastned with ribbandes on his head.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vitta, ae, f. [vieo], a band, esp. a fillet or chaplet worn round the head; and, in relig. lang., a head-band, a sacrificial or sacerdotal fillet, Ov. M. 2, 413; 4, 6; 5, 110; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 34; Verg. A. 2, 133; 10, 538; Luc. 5, 142; Val. Fl. 1, 480; Ov. M. 13, 643; Juv. 12, 118.—Represented as worn by poets, a symbol of their sacred office, or, acc. to Serv., in token of divine honors, Verg. A. 6, 665.—Also by brides and Vestal virgins, regarded as a symbol of chastity: capite compto crinis vittasque habeat, adsimuletque se Tuam esse uxorem, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; Tib. 1, 6, 67; Ov. P. 3, 3, 51; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 34; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 31; id. Tr. 2, 247; id. R. Am. 386.—Bound around the altar, Verg. E. 8, 64; id. A. 3, 64; or on sacred trees, Ov. M. 8, 744; borne by suppliants for protection or pardon, Verg. A. 7, 237; 8, 128; Hor. C. 3, 14, 8; Ov. A. A. 2, 401 al.