 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1792 - 644 pages
...wear any thing but the toga. See p. 85. The Romans afterwards wore below the taga a white woollen veft called TUNICA, which came down a little below the...knees before, and to the middle of the legs behind, *%uinfh! xi. 3. at fir It without ileeres. Tunics with flccves, (CHIRODOTJE vel tunic* manicattt),... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1807 - 636 pages
...Juvenal, ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. Nor did candidates for offices wear any thing but the toga. See p. 85. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga a white...a little below the knees before, and to the middle ot the legs behind, Qinnctil. xi. 3. at first without sleeves. Tunics with sleeves, (CmRODOTVE vel... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1811 - 358 pages
...ac debilitatam ma2. Manlcatia et talaribus tunicie — The Romans wore below the Higa a white woolen vest called tunica, which came down a little below...knees before, and to the middle of the legs behind, at first without sleeves. Tunics with sleeves (tunicae mamcatae) or reaching to the ancles (talures)... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 578 pages
...Sat. i. 3. 15. Juvenal, ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. ' Nor did candidates for offices wear any thing but the toga. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga...3. at first without sleeVes. Tunics with sleeves, (CHIRODOTJE vel lunictt, manicatce), or reaching the ankles, (lalares) were reckoned effeminate, Cic.... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Archaeology - 1819 - 598 pages
...Juvenal, ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. Nor did candidates for offices wear any thing but the toga. See p. 79. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga a white...to the middle of the legs behind, Quinctil. xi. 3. 128., at first without sleeves. Tunics with sleeves, (CHIRODOTJS vel tunicte manicatee], or reaching... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 602 pages
...Juvenal, ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. Nor did candidates for offices wear any thing but the toga. See p. 79. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga a white...knees before, and to the middle of the legs behind, Quindil. xi. 3. 128., at first without sleeves. Tunics with sleeves, (CHIRODOT.S: vel tunica manicatts),'... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1826 - 508 pages
...Horat. Sat. i. 3. 15. Juvenal ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. Nor did candidates for oflices wear any thing but the toga. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga...which came down a little below the knees before, and the middle of the legs behind, Quinctil. xi. 3. at first without sleeves. Tunics with sleeves, (CHIRODOT;E... | |
 | Alexander Adam - History - 1830 - 508 pages
...Sat. i. 3. 15. Juvenal, ix. 28. Martial, iv. 19. Nor did candidates for offices wear any thing but the toga. The Romans afterwards wore below the toga a white woollen vest culled TUNICA, which came down a little below the knees before, and the middle of the legs behind,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...gown, was assumed by young men at the age of seventeen. The tunica or tunic, was a white woollen vest, which came down a little below the knees before, and to the middle of the leg behind, and was fastened about the waist by a girdle, which also served as a purse. § Women wore... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Mythology, Classical - 1831 - 192 pages
...young men assumed the toga virilis. The tunic was a white woollen vest worn below the toga, coming down a little below the knees before, and to the middle of the leg behind, at first without sloeves. Tunics with sleeves were reckoned effeminate : but under the... | |
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The tunica or tunic, was a white woollen vest, which came down a little below the knees before, and to the middle of the leg behind, and was fastened about the waist by a girdle, which also served as a purse. 
