His hand shook, but he steadied the glasses and saw the stripe was a row of huge letters.

Forty stripes, is, I believe, the authorized number.

The old flag, the stars and stripes, must not only be the symbol in their eyes of past glories and of the country's honor, but its stars must shine before them with the light of liberty, and its stripes must be the emblem of the even and enduring lines of equal justice.

The purple stripe (-clavus-) on the tunic was a badge of the senators (I. V. Prerogatives of the Senate) and of the equites, so that at least in later times the former wore it broad, the latter narrow; with the nobility the -clavus- had nothing to do.

"Brutal stripes and all the varied kinds of personal indignities, are not the only species of cruelty which slavery licenses.