A dictionary of Greek and Roman . shad no sinus, and that afterwards the sinuses werevery short. The passage in Livy (xxi. 18, sinu extoga facto, iterum sinu effuso) seems to refernot to the sinus, technically so called, but a sinuswhich Fabius made at the moment by gatheringup some part of his toga. The ancient mode of wearing the toga is shownin the following cut, which is taken from theAugusteum, pi. 117 (Becker, Gallus, vol. ii. p. 83),and represents a statue at Dresden. Let the toga, which in this case was probablynot far from an exact semicircle, be held behindthe figure, w
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . shad no sinus, and that afterwards the sinuses werevery short. The passage in Livy (xxi. 18, sinu extoga facto, iterum sinu effuso) seems to refernot to the sinus, technically so called, but a sinuswhich Fabius made at the moment by gatheringup some part of his toga. The ancient mode of wearing the toga is shownin the following cut, which is taken from theAugusteum, pi. 117 (Becker, Gallus, vol. ii. p. 83),and represents a statue at Dresden. Let the toga, which in this case was probablynot far from an exact semicircle, be held behindthe figure, with the curved edge downwards. First,one corner is thrown over the left shoulder ; thenthe other part of the garment is placed on the rightshoulder, thus entirely covering the back and theright side up to the neck. It is then passed overthe front of the body, leaving very little of the chestuncovered, and reaching downwards nearly to thefeet (in the figure, quite to one of them). Theremaining end, or corner, is then thrown back over TOGA. 1135. the left shoulder, in such a manner as to cover thegreater part of the arm. By this arrangement theright arm is covered by the garment, a circumstancenoticed by Quintilian (§ 138) ; but it was occa-sionally released by throwing the toga off the right,shoulder, and leaving it to be supported on the leftalone. This arrangement is seen in many ancientstatues ; an example is shown in the following cut,which represents the celebrated statue of Aulus Me-tellus (commonly called the Etruscan orator) in theFlorence Gallery. (Muller, Denkmdler, vol. i. No. 289.) The portion of the toga which, in
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