03-11-2008, 10:29 AM
Quote:Barbarian dress became popular with the civilian lower classes. It was so popular that the Western Emperor Honorius felt the need to issue a ban on anyone from wearing trousers in the city of Rome. (Codex Theodosianus 14.10.2-3, tr. C. Pharr, "The Theodosian Code," p. 415)There are enough trousers on the Piazza Armerina mosaics to counter that view of the lower classes liking them. :wink:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)