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Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers.
It was a sea of horrible toga tank tops, and those double-slit skirts that resemble loincloths.
Quintus fumbled with the ceremonial toga of the Urban Prefect, thick with gold embroidery.
She had not failed to notice the grand, purple stripe ornamenting his toga.
My costume consisted of a toga, sandals and a laurel wreath, which Imperial get-up I wore throughout the performance.
Thousands of them had to be drained of their glandular mucus to make one single purple toga.
The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery.
Moreover, the fact that he wears a toga, another sign of Roman citizenship, confirms this reading of his legal status.
Antony displayed Caesar's body, still wrapped in its blood-stained toga, the knife holes visible.
Senators were recognised by a toga with a broad purple stripe, while the equestrian wore a toga with a narrow purple stripe and a gold finger ring.
He is a mature, barefoot, and bearded man in archaic costume, the toga sine tunica, which leaves most of his chest and right shoulder and arm bare.
A caryatid is a statue of a woman generally dressed in a long toga used to support an entablature in place of a column, a pilar or a pilaster.
A woman dressed in a toga with a flowing stole places her hand in the mouth of a carved bust.
When I arrived at college back in 1991, I might as well have been wearing a toga.
He insisted on representing himself at his trial, and wore a white sheet wrapped around him like a toga during closing arguments, insisting he was a prophet.
I wonder if he knew that his toga was dyed with what was basically sea snail spittle.
It will be good if everyone enters into the spirit of it and wears a toga.
The only adults allowed to wear this toga were curule magistrates.
In his work on oratory, Quintilian describes in detail how the public speaker ought to orchestrate his gestures in relation to his toga.
In art, the toga is shown with the long end dipping between the feet, a deep curved fold in front, and a bulbous flap at the midsection.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In doublet or jack boots or war bonnet, in a toga, even, he might have mastered the dilemma and carried off a dubious situation.
And he did not even feel that Petronius covered his head that moment with the toga.
It is indeed a proud day for the youngster, because it is his putting on of the toga.
He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga.
Romanised in mien, he wants but the flowing toga and sandalled shoon to shine as a centurion.
Not only the proconsul, but the town crier also ascends the tribunal and appears wearing the toga like his master.
It was to draw around him the toga, with which he silently covered his face.
The expression is a Latinism, the gown standing for the toga.
He gave his boy his toga, or, as we should say, made a man of him.
The toga was an ample semi-circular garment, also without sleeves.
With respect to the requirements of art, a probable impossibility is to be preferred toga thing improbable and yet possible.
A member of the staff involved in securing the site yesterday found the toga in the dressing room used by the New York act.
The ordinary garments of the Romans were the toga and the tunic.
He might wear a toga and then be Marius among the ruins of Carthage.
Fox in a grimy toga spelt Bloomsbury Square with my watch still wanting three minutes to the hour.
And the young man, casting his toga aside, rushed forth in his tunic.
Sapsea's father, in a curly wig and toga, in the act of selling.
There was absolutely nothing else on the large flat surface except a little bronze statuette draped in a toga, mysteriously watchful in its shadowy immobility.
Ref Martin Atkinson had a shocker, but Mourinho has sulked like a woman turning up at a party in the same outfit as a rival, even though it's a toga party.
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