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Definition of Toga virilis

Toga virilis
Toga To"ga, n.; pl. E. Togas, L. Tog[ae]. [L., akin to tegere to cover. See Thatch.] (Rom. Antiq.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga pr[ae]texta. Toga pr[ae]texta. [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. Toga virilis [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

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- togata ('toga-wearing race'). There were many kinds of toga, each reserved by custom to a particular usage or social class. Toga virilis ("toga of manhood")...
- conferred a second time when girls married, or when boys ****umed the toga virilis upon reaching manhood. Although it was the oldest of the tria nomina...
- distinguished from freedmen, foreigners, slaves and infamous persons. The toga virilis ("toga of manhood") was a semi-elliptical, white woolen cloth some 6 feet...
- high-ranking title of Augusta. In AD 51, his brother Nero ****umed the toga virilis although he was not yet 14. The Senate also decided then that Nero should...
- their first toga virilis, the "manly" togawhich Ovid, perhaps by way of poetic etymology, calls a toga libera (Liber's toga or "toga of freedom")...
- treatment after his adoption. In AD 5, at the age of 17, he received the toga virilis, and his name was added to the list of aristocratic youth eligible for...
- killed early in his reign. In 136, shortly after, Marcus ****umed the toga virilis symbolizing his p****age into manhood, Hadrian arranged for his engagement...
- with Nero being elevated by Tiberius in AD 20. Nero received the toga virilis (toga of manhood), was promised the office of quaestor five years in advance...
- Cremona until his 15th year (55 BC), when he is said to have received the toga virilis on the very day that Lucretius died. From Cremona, he moved to Milan...
- wedding both ****es had to wear specific clothing. Boys had to wear the toga virilis while the bride to wear a wreath, a veil, a yellow hairnet, chaplets...