The Romans were intensely dignified and wore the toga, pallium and tunic; the Antiochenes affected to think dignity was stupid and its trappings (forbidden to them) hideous; so they carried the contrary pose to extremes.

Where is Marcia?" Throwing away his toga for a slave to catch and fold he turned between gilded columns, through a bronze door, into the antechamber of the royal suite.

Therefore the senators convened in session that very day, changed their togas and gave the consuls charge of the city, "that it suffer no injury."

With the reception of the certificate of maturity the youth may be said to have donned the virile toga.

I spend half my days teaching clodhoppers how to fold hired togas properly behind the neck.

[Footnote 38: A white toga with horizontal purple stripes.

Cedat armis toga.

But the grace had not left the toga folded across the breast, nor was the fine Roman majesty gone from the head and face,a head small, but high, with a full and ample brow, a nose with the true eagle curve, and thin, firm lips formed to command; a statue most subduing in its simple dignity and pathetic in its partial ruin.

Meantime I return to Rigon's hut to rearrange my toga as King Caesar did when the assassins fell upon him, and to encounter with due decorum whatever Dame Luck may prefer.

Some lay in the open; some constructed tents, or rude huts of boughs, stretching their togas over them for shelter.

The strange man who had been put ashore, with his one sandal in his hand, and holding his torn toga about him, hastened to the nearest stringer of the wharf and waved good-by to us.

"In imitation of their chief," says M. Jules Quicherat, the eminent antiquarian, "more than once the Franks doffed the war coat and the leather Belt, and assumed the toga of Roman dignity.