. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. dover it in a small round fold (5.),termed umbo (Tertull. de Pall. 5.),which thus kept it at a proper illustration, presenting a frontview, is from a statue of the VillaPamfili; the other, with the backturned, from a statute of the VillaMedici. Another method of adjusting thetoga, termed Cincttjs Ga
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. dover it in a small round fold (5.),termed umbo (Tertull. de Pall. 5.),which thus kept it at a proper illustration, presenting a frontview, is from a statue of the VillaPamfili; the other, with the backturned, from a statute of the VillaMedici. Another method of adjusting thetoga, termed Cincttjs Gabinus, isexplained and illustrated under thatterm. 2. Toga prcetexta. A toga orna-mented with a broad border of pur-ple, originally derived from theEtruscans, and worn with the bullaby freeborn children of both sexes,as well as the chief magistrates, dic-tators, consuls, prsetors, and sediles,the kings, and some priests, both atRome and in the colonies. (Prop,iv. 1. 131. Liv. xxxiv. 7. Festus,s. v. Cic. Phil. ii. 43. Plin. Eutrop, i. 17.) It differed inno other respect than the addition ofthe border (which would not be re- jpresented by sculptors) from the ex- jamples above introduced, as is testi-fied by numerous statues still existingof young persons wearing the toga. with the bulla round their necks(Bartoli, Sep. 27. Mus. Borb. vii. Pio-Clem. iii. 24. Villa Bor-ghese v. 3. and 4.) ; in all which, andmany other instances, the prcetexta isadjusted in the same manner as ex-hibited by the two last figures. 3. Toga pura, or virilis. The com-mon toga usually worn by men, madeof white wool, without ornament orcolour. Cic. Att. v. 20. Id. Phil. ii. 18. 4. Toga picta. A toga ornamentedwith embroidery iacu picta) ; origi-nally worn together with the tunicapalmata by theconsul at histriumph; but,under the Em-pire, by theconsuls, andalso by theprsetors, whenthey celebratedthe Circensiangames; whenceit is often to beseen on theconsular diptychs of a late period,from o
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