Gens togāta, the Romans, who wore togas. The Greeks wore “palls,” and were called the gens palliaʹta; the Gauls wore breeches, and were called gens braccata. (Toga, pallium, and braccæ.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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