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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

Alex was picturing Father Mulrooney in a toga when he heard footsteps coming toward their apartment.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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 Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

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 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

When the Romans said "cedant arma togae," they did not refer to civil officials and soldiers; the civil officials were then soldiers in their turn; professional soldiers did not exist.

From Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph

Another line quoted in the 2nd Philippic is Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

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 Rait, Robert S.

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

Guests are greeted there by women in dark red togas wearing gilded arm cuffs, looking like they just walked off the set of “Ben-Hur,” the 1959 Hollywood epic about the Roman empire and chariot races.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

Owens has always had an aesthetic riffing on the garb of Ancient Egypt, with togas, drapes and high priestess styles gracing his runways.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton