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Its stitched-together scenes—frat pledge party, dining hall food fight, toga party, horse in Dean Wormer’s office, homecoming parade—were individually hilarious and held together only by the individual characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Others have stated that an ounce of gold was enough to buy a good toga in Roman times and is enough to buy a man’s suit today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
An oversized floral print on a draped toga dress seemed to capture the Beatles’ psychedelic era, almost transporting wearers to London’s Camden vintage shops.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
One of the earliest symbolic stand-ins for the United States was "Columbia," a female icon usually dressed in a toga.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
His toga was baggy, his tunic barely fit over his belly, and his scabbard fell off his belt every three seconds, but Frank didn’t bother pointing that out.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
He left a number of "togae" to his Oxford friends, including Robert Holler, the son of his Norfolk neighbour, to whom he also bequeathed "unum pulvinar vocatum le bolstar."
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
"Cedant arma togae," said Villefort with a bow.
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
The truth is that in this age cedant arma togae: it is the civilian who rules on the throne or behind it, and who makes the fighting-men his mere agents.
From Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Another line quoted in the 2nd Philippic is Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
It was in them that the much-abused lines O fortunam natam me Consule Romam, and Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi, occurred.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
There was a brief discussion of togas and other Roman paraphernalia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The 1930s-era news accounts describe lavish parties with male servers draped in togas.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
No matter how skilled a participant might be at this dignified activity, the result would necessarily be floors, walls and togas splattered with sticky purple stains.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2023
Men draped themselves in Roman togas to proclaim in public, signed their letters with the names of famous Romans and filled etiquette manuals, sermons and schoolbooks with lessons from the classical past.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
The least they could do was pretend that we didn’t look like fools in our ballooning togas and beards and bows and arrows.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Ancient Rome - Introductory
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The Roman Republic, Lessons 1–2
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