in Roman antiquity, a wide woollen gown or mantle, which feems to have been of a femicircular form, without sleeves; differing both in richness and largenes, according to the circumstances of the wearer, and ufed only upon occasion of appearing in public.

Every body knows that the toga was the distinguished mark of a Roman: hence the jus toge, or privilege of a Roman citizen; i.e. the right of wearing a Roman habit, and of taking, as they explain it, fire and water through the Roman empire.