The agreement, Curio says, was that he should shake off the toga from his shoulder.
The skirt of the toga was drawn round the lower extremities, that there might be no exposure in falling, as the Romans, at this period, wore no covering for the thighs and legs.
The shape of the toga was roughly semicircular, the straight edge being about six yards long and the width in the middle about two yards, as in the diagram (fig.
It would, however, seem more natural for the right side to be pulled over the left, but it is unlikely that a man would fight in a loose cloak, and the toga was only worn in times of peace.
It was etiquette to wear a toga when dining with the Emperor or going to court; advocates wore it, as did clients when they visited their patrons, and it was also adopted at funerals and when sacrifices were being made.
It consisted of a tunic either short or long, over which was worn the toga which was capable of the same variety of arrangement as the plaid which still survives.
Even when the toga was given up by the people generally, on the founding of the Roman Empire, it continued to be used in certain cases.
The outdoor garment which replaced the toga took several forms.
Footnote 10: At the age of sixteen a boy laid aside the bulla and the toga praetexta and assumed toga virīlis or manly gown.
Footnote 7: The «toga picta» worn by a general in his triumph was a splendid robe of Tyrian purple covered with golden stars.
The eagles give way to the lictors, the smiling soldier wears the toga of peace and the senate-house casts its brilliance in the midst of the camp.
It consisted in girding the toga tight round the body by means of one of its laciniae (= loose ends).
They have laid hands on the toga that inspired Hannibal and Pyrrhus with terror.
Think it no shame, Gradivus, to bear the laurel-crowned axes in a hand of peace and to exchange thy shining breastplate for the Latin toga while thine iron chariot remains unused and thy steeds disport them in the pastures of Eridanus.
When a second Rome arose and the Eastern Empire assumed the toga of the West, Egypt fell beneath that new sway.
He threw off his encumbering toga and walked in his tunic, with bare throat and bare knees, and carried the toga over one bare arm, and swung the other bare arm free.
The silken folds of his toga fell gracefully around him, and he held his head high.
The white toga was the invariable gala dress worn at all ceremonious receptions, even by the emperors.
A light woollen cloak, worn either in place of thetoga or tunic, or, which was more customary, as an outside wrap over the toga.
The young man gazed at his arm, where the toga and under-garment hung in long strips; the wound was but skin-deep, a spot of blood had here and there oozed out.
He flung his toga over his shoulder with an air, and went to the door.
At this moment the noble figure of an old man appeared in the doorway; with a gleaming white toga over his shoulders and flowing snowy locks, his towering height gave him a majestic presence.
But on the contrary, before cock-crow, I must be out of bed, fling my toga over my shoulders, and be bowing to noblemen!
From ancient times the privilege of wearing a broad purple stripe upon the edge of the toga was one of the distinctions of the Roman senators.
Cincinnatus had hung his toga on a tamarac pole to strike a furrow by, and hadn't succeeded in getting the plough in more than twice in going across.
Putting on his togaand buckling an old hame strap around his loins he said: "Gentlemen, if you will wait till I go to the house and get some vaseline on my limbs I will do your dictating for you as low as you have ever had it done.
The last words were addressed to Publius, who now entered the room with stately dignity, and clad in the ample folds of the white toga worn by Romans of high birth.
Of his two remarkable-looking hearers one was wrapped in a long and splendid robe and wore a rich display of gold chains and rings, while the other wore nothing over his short chiton but a Roman toga thrown over his left shoulder.
On the night before her marriage the girl put off her toga praetexta and her mother placed on her a long white garment called a tunica recta or regilla, and her loosened hair was confined in a scarlet net.
It would seem that a girdle was not worn with the toga nor pins or clasps to fasten it, but in later fashionable times small pieces of lead were placed in the ends and hidden by tassels which served to preserve the drapery.
The bulla was removed from the boy's neck and the toga praetexta taken off him and both were consecrated to the lares, a sacrifice was made, and then the boy was invested with the toga virilis.
Another garment was the paenula, a kind of cloak made of thick wool and leather, and worn over the toga in traveling in bad weather.
The women in the early times wore the toga and the tunica the same as the men.
Boys wore the toga praetexta, which had a purple border, and which was discarded when manhood was reached at fifteen or sixteen for the toga virilis, pura or libera.
In case of heat or cold or rain, the men would pull the upper part of the toga up over the head and the women used the palla in the same way.
Another kind of cloak, worn over the toga or tunica, was the lacuna, which was made of lighter and more costly material and was worn for show as well as for use.
The white toga, without color, toga pura, was the ordinary garment worn.
Thus one-third of the toga would cover the left side and front of the body, the middle third would cover the back and right side, and the remaining third would cover the chest and go over the left shoulder.
The tunica was worn indoors, when the toga was thrown off, and also outdoors, when the toga was worn over it.
It is moreover related that he did not doff his toga when painting, thus to indicate that such work was not unworthy of a Roman citizen.
Nor did he leave himself to his own devices, but took to himself a master of eloquence who might teach him when to make use of his arms, where to stamp his feet, and in what way to throw his toga about with a graceful passion.
The "sagum" was a common military cloak, which the early Romans wore instead of the togawhen they went out to war.
Cicero has left us no description of the moment in which Cæsar is supposed to have gathered his toga over his face so that he might fall with dignity.
Afterward, when Milo entered the Senate, he was accused by a Senator present of having come thither with arms hidden beneath his toga; whereupon he lifted his toga and showed that there were none.
Tullius then seized his toga with both hands and dragged it from his neck.
I am anxious to hear how you solved the bond-robbery mystery," said Socrates, wrapping his toga closely about him and settling back against one of the spiles of the wharf.
A prosperous looking Saguntine, wrapped in a red toga in Roman fashion, and leaning on a long staff, approached to speak to him.
Moreover, the hoof upon one foot, mentioned by Tertullian, is not to be seen; a remark which also applies to the toga and the book he mentions.
This figure had an ass's ears, and was dressed in a toga with a book; having a hoof on one of his feet.
It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga pr\'91texta.
Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Thus the mask was of simple white, the hair of dark marble, the garments of red, green, and gray marble or granite, and even the band for the forehead and the clasp for the toga were of a suitable hue.
Domitia had laid aside her maidenly dress, the toga praetextata woven with horizontal stripes, for the dress of a married woman, the toga recta, with vertical stripes.
The toga pulla was simply a dingy toga worn by persons in mourning or threatened with some calamity, usually a reverse of political fortune.
The festivities of the great day began in the early morning, when the boy laid before the Lares of his house the bulla (section 99) andtoga praetexta, called together the insignia pueritiae.
It is evident that in this fashionable toga the limbs were completely fettered, and that all rapid, not to say violent, motion was absolutely impossible.
The curule magistrates, censors, and dictators wore the toga praetexta, differing from the ordinary toga only in having a purple border.
A dazzling brilliancy could be given to the toga by a preparation of fuller's chalk, and one so treated was called toga splendens or candida.
When the boy assumed the toga of manhood the long locks were cut off, sometimes with a good deal of formality, and under the Empire they were often made an offering to some deity.
The toga picta was wholly of purple covered with embroidery of gold, and was worn by the victorious general in his triumphal procession and later by the Emperors.
It was also worn with nothing over it by the citizen while at work, but he never appeared in public without the toga over it, and even then, hidden by the toga though it was, good form required the wearing of the girdle with it.
Pliny makes it one of the attractions of his villa that no guest need wear the toga there.
His duties ceased when the boy assumed the toga of manhood, but the same warm affection often continued between them as between the woman and her nurse (section 101).
Pompey rushed into the middle of the riot to appease it, and had his toga covered with blood.
Pompey had his togacovered with blood, and Quintus Cicero, whom he had brought with him to the Forum to speak to the people in favour of his brother, was obliged to hide himself; the gladiators rushed upon another tribune, P.
I hope I never get rich and die decently so that the people will swear by my death, if I don't hound you everywhere with my togaturned inside out.
It was not long before Stychus brought a white shroud and a purple-bordered togainto the dining-room, and Trimalchio requested us to feel them and see if they were pure wool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
