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Tegumen omnibus sagum fibula aut, si desit, spina consertum: cetera intecti totos dies iuxta focum atque ignem
agunt. locupletissimi veste distinguuntur non fluitante,
sicut Sarmatae ac Parthi, sed stricta et singulos artus exprimente.
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gerunt et ferarum pelles, proximi ripae neglegenter,
ulteriores exquisitius, ut quibus nullus per commercia cultus.
eligunt feras et detracta velamina spargunt maculis pellibusque beluarum, quas exterior Oceanus atque ignotum mare
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gignit. nec alius feminis quam viris habitus, nisi quod
feminae saepius lineis amictibus velantur eosque purpura
variant, partemque vestitus superioris in manicas non extendunt, nudae brachia ac lacertos; sed et proxima pars
pectoris patet.
Opera Minora. Cornelius Tacitus. Henry Furneaux. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1900.
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