Note 063 Tam longinquo orbe petitur, ut in publico matrona transluceat ...ut denudet foeminas vestis, (Plin. vi. 20, xi. 21.) Varro and Publius Syrus had already played on the Toga vitrea, ventus texilis, and nebula linen, (Horat. Sermon. i. 2, 101, with the notes of Torrentius and Dacier.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 40