Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Togata

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. 

TOGA'TA. Literally, a woman clothed with the toga; for in early times the Roman females wore the toga as well as the men (Varro, de Vit. P. R. ap. Non. s. v. p. 541.), as those of Greece also wore the pallium. But when the stola had been adopted as the distinguishing dress of the Roman matrons, the use of the toga amongst females was confined to women of pleasure (meretrices), or to wives who had been divorced on the ground of adultery (Mart. ii. 39. Juv. ii. 70.); whence the term togata came to have the more usual signification of a prostitute (Hor. Sat. i. 2. 63.), or an adulteress (Mart. vi. 64.).

2. Togata fabula. A play in which the incidents and characters were selected from Roman life, and consequently represented by actors in the toga or national costume. Cic. Sext. 55. Sen. Ep.