08-03-2008, 05:46 PM
From Suetonius's Life of Julius Caesar. The 1913 Loeb English version:
45.3
They say, too, that he was remarkable in his dress; that he wore a senator's tunic with fringed sleeves reaching to the wrist, and always had a girdle over it, though rather a loose one; and this, they say, was the occasion of Sulla's mot, when he often warned the nobles to keep an eye on the ill-girt boy.
45.3 : Latin
Etiam cultu notabilem ferunt; usum enim lato clavo ad manus fimbriato nec umquam aliter quam ut super eum cingeretur, et quidem fluxiore cinctura; unde emanasse Sullae dictum optimates saepius admonentis, ut male praecinctum puerum caverent.
No words specifcially or obliquely metion colour, but we get a fringes!
The word translated as fringes is "frimbria" for those of you who want to grab a handy dictionary.
45.3
They say, too, that he was remarkable in his dress; that he wore a senator's tunic with fringed sleeves reaching to the wrist, and always had a girdle over it, though rather a loose one; and this, they say, was the occasion of Sulla's mot, when he often warned the nobles to keep an eye on the ill-girt boy.
45.3 : Latin
Etiam cultu notabilem ferunt; usum enim lato clavo ad manus fimbriato nec umquam aliter quam ut super eum cingeretur, et quidem fluxiore cinctura; unde emanasse Sullae dictum optimates saepius admonentis, ut male praecinctum puerum caverent.
No words specifcially or obliquely metion colour, but we get a fringes!
The word translated as fringes is "frimbria" for those of you who want to grab a handy dictionary.
Michael Griffin
High School Teacher who knows Latin & Greek
felicior quam sus in stercu
High School Teacher who knows Latin & Greek
felicior quam sus in stercu
