or Trowsers, a garment which extends from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, encircling the limbs. The Romans, during the times of the republic, had nothing corresponding to the modern trowsers, but sometimes bound their thighs and legs with fasciae or bands of cloth. This article of dress appears to have been peculiar to barbarous nations; and hence Tacitus calls it barbaricum tegmen. It was, in fact, in general use among all the nations which encircled the Greek and Roman people, from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. We are told, in particular, that trowsers were used by the following nations—the Medes and Persians, the Parthians, the Phrygians, the Saxons, the Sarmatæ, the Dacians and Getæ, the Teutones, the Belgæ, the Britains, and the Gauls. Braces or trowsers were eventually introduced into Italy, some say as early as the time of Augustus; but the breeches of that emperor, mentioned by Suetonius, were apparently only swathes tied round his thighs. Later, however, braces became so much in fashion, that it was judged necessary, under Honorius, to prohibit their use, and the bracarii or breeches-makers were expelled from the city, it being considered unworthy of a nation that commanded the world to wear the apparel of barbarians.