Τύγα
toga
Translated by David Whitehead2 Dec 2002Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Senatorial dress among Romans.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τύγα· παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις συγκλητικὴ ἐσθής.
Betacode
*tu/ga: para\ *(rwmai/ois sugklhtikh\ e)sqh/s.
Notes
- More exactly 'the principal garment of the free-born Roman male' (OCD(4) s.v.).
The odd formtu/ga is unique to this passage (and, according to Adler, in the unpublished Lexicon codicis Barocciani 50); for transliteration with o see e.g. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.61.1; and note anyway an alternative Greek term for the toga (tau 464, tau 465).
Linked from2 entries
- τ464ΤήβεννοςtogaA Roman uniform. "The people of Tarentum polluted Postumius' toga with human excrements."
- τ465Τήβεννοςtebennos, togaA Roman garment, [named] from Tebennos, an Arcadian who first put on this outer-garment; for he sailed down the Ionian Gulf and was received by the settlers living there. Learning from him, the natives clothed…
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