. 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. pit (see the first figure), and thenthrew it over the opposite shoulder,in the manner exhibited by thethird example from an Etruscanstatue of bronze. Moreover, in allthese instances the restricted size ofthe drapery, as compared with thelater styles of the same garment,satisfactorily explains why a toga ofthi
. 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. pit (see the first figure), and thenthrew it over the opposite shoulder,in the manner exhibited by thethird example from an Etruscanstatue of bronze. Moreover, in allthese instances the restricted size ofthe drapery, as compared with thelater styles of the same garment,satisfactorily explains why a toga ofthis kind is termed toga Aug. 73. The first alteration introduced, asit is reasonable to conclude, underthe republic, consisted in increasingthe size of the drapery, without alter-ing the character of its outline, whichstill retained the lunated form, whenspread out, but consisted of a largersegment than the original semicircle,and thus produced a garment of in-termediate size, between the first andearly style just explained, and thelast fashion described by the nextparagraph ; such as was usually wornby Augustus, and is distinguished bythe expression, neque restricta, nequefusa (Suet. Aug. 73), that is, neitherscanty nor profuse. But these en-larged dimensions made i
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