Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Feminalia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FEMINA'LIA or FEMORA'LIA. Short breeches, or drawers which covered the thighs (femora), being fastened round the waist, and terminating a little below the knee (Suet. Aug. 82. Isidor. Orig. xix. 22. 29.), like the annexed figure (Feminalia/1.1), from the Column of Trajan. They were not, however, usually worn by the Romans in early times, except, perhaps, by some few individuals of delicate constitution, like Augustus; as in ordinary cases the long and ample toga rendered such a precaution unnecessary. But when that garment fell into disuse, they seem to have been very generally adopted; particularly by the troops engaged on foreign service in cold and northerly climates; for they appear invariably on all the figures of the triumphal arches and columns, both officers and men.

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  Feminalia/1.1