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the style of the shoes, or the arrangement of the
hair, is just as reprehensible as excessive carelessness. There are also details of dress which are
altered to some extent by successive changes in
fashion. The ancients, for example, wore no folds,
and their successors wore them very short.
1 [6] feet hanging in front from the left shoulder now hung below the rest. A portion was pulled up from above and Allowed to hang over the edge of that portion of the toga which Quintilian compares to a balleus. This was known as the umbo, and is described by Quintilian as pars quae ultima imponitur. He recommends that a considerable portion should be thus pulled up and allowed to hang fairly low in front over the edge of the balteus, that the weight of the hanging portion might balance the remainder of the original 6 feet of toga hanging from the left shoulder, keep it in place and prevent it from slipping lack into its original position. The toga was very nearly semicircular in shape, which explains Quintilian's statement that it should be round. For further details see Companion to Latin Studies, Camb. Univ. Press, p. 191.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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