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<p>[QUOTE="Mikey Zee, post: 2409703, member: 72818"]I have to agree with my initial impression and everyone else---no cap and the Wikipedia source is incorrect..and apparently this is a paraphrase from the reference it was incorrectly pulled from:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Much like the half-Vulcan Mr. Spock, sporting a stocking cap regardless of the weather whenever he had to mingle with 20th Century Earthlings, Midas hid his ears under a conical cap named for his and Marsyas' homeland of Phrygia. It looked like the cap worn by Roman freed slaves, the <i>pileus</i> or liberty cap".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey Zee, post: 2409703, member: 72818"]I have to agree with my initial impression and everyone else---no cap and the Wikipedia source is incorrect..and apparently this is a paraphrase from the reference it was incorrectly pulled from: "Much like the half-Vulcan Mr. Spock, sporting a stocking cap regardless of the weather whenever he had to mingle with 20th Century Earthlings, Midas hid his ears under a conical cap named for his and Marsyas' homeland of Phrygia. It looked like the cap worn by Roman freed slaves, the [I]pileus[/I] or liberty cap".[/QUOTE]
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