trabea

* '' trabea '' '- toga entirely in purple, worn by statues of deities and emperors

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Rome was at first governed by kings, chosen by the people; their power was not absolute, but limited; their badges were the _trabea_ or white robe adorned with stripes of purple, a golden crown and ivory sceptre; the _curule_ chair and twelve _lictors_ with the _fasces_, that is, carrying each a bundle of rods, with an axe in the middle of them.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

Romulus wore it in his trabea or royal mantle, and

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

Besides the occurrence of "trabea carnis indutus," at the commencement of a sermon on S. S.ephen by S. Fulgentius

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various

Servius comes forth with the trabea and lictors, and seating himself on the king's throne, decides some cases, with respect to others pretends that he will consult the king.

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

Ruspensis, I have just now met with the expressions, "trabea carnis velatus," and "carnis trabea amicti," in a copy of the _editio princeps_ of the Latin version of Damascen's books in defence of Image-worship, by

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various

Here he himself took the cowl, so that "he who had been wont to go about the city clad in the trabea and aglow with silk and jewels, now clad in a worthless garment served the altar of the Lord"

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

On the diptych of Boetius at Brescia (487) and several others of the same type the consul is clad in a trabea (a kind of toga); he holds in his left hand the scipio (consular sceptre) and in his right the mappa circensis, or white cloth which he used to wave as the signal for the games in the circus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Servius appeared in his trabea attended by the lictors, and after taking his seat in the royal chair decided some cases and adjourned others under presence of consulting the king.

The History of Rome, Vol. I 1905

The unequalled splendour of his _trabea_, of which the embroideries disappeared under the number and flash of colour of the jewels, left the populace gaping.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903