Lexicographical Neighbors of Subucula
Literary usage of Subucula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Roman Antiquities by William Ramsay (1894)
"subucula.—The Tunica, as indicated above, was a sort of shirt worn under the
Toga, and buckled round the waist by a girdle ..."
2. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1903)
"Perhaps, later, the word subucula was restricted ... From whence it would seem
that the subucula fitted tight to the body. The clavis latus, or angustus, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"The small figure, from a statue of the Villa Borghese, shows a dress of the same
description when properly put on, with a part of the subucula appearing ..."
4. Dictionary of Latin Synonymes: For the Use of Schools and Private Students by Ludwig Ramshorn, Francis Lieber (1841)
"... as low down as below the knees, and fastened with a girdle; with women, longer,
wider, and with sleeves ; subucula, a sort of shirt worn by men, ..."
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