A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 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. pi.
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 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. the first figure, hangs down from the chest, if it be asinus, is certainly of the kind described by Quin-tilian as perquam brevis. The next cut represents the later mode of wear-ing the toga, and is taken from an engraving inthe Museo Borbonico (vol. vi. tav. 4l) of a statuefound at Herculaneura. By comparing this and other statues with thedescription of Quintilian, we may conclude that themode of wearing the toga was something like thefollowing : -— First, as above remarked, the form in this casewas a segment less than a semicircle. As before,the curved side was the lower, and one end of the 1136 TOGA. TOGA.
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