Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Togatus

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'TUS. In a general sense, wearing the toga as described and illustrated under that word; but as that article of attire formed the distinguishing portion of the national costume, the word is often used in the special sense of a Roman, as opposed to palliatus, a Greek, whose national costume was the pallium. (Virg. Aen. i. 286. Cic. Rosc. Am. 46. Id. Phil. v. 5. Suet. Claud. 15.) And as the toga was a civic costume, for which the sagum or the paludamentum was substituted in times of war, or during active service in the army, the term is often applied specially, to designate a civilian, as contradistinguished from a military man. (Cic. Sull. 30. Id. Or. i. 24.) Also, as the toga completed what we should call the full-dress costume of the people, which the lower classes only put on upon holidays, but laid aside when engaged in working, the term togatus is opposed to tunicatus, and implies that the person so described does not belong to the working classes (Juv. iii. 127. i. 96. vii. 142.), which constitutes the biting satire in the passages just cited.