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Definition of Toga virilis
1. Noun. (ancient Rome) a toga worn by a youth as a symbol of manhood and citizenship.
Geographical relationships: Capital Of Italy, Eternal City, Italian Capital, Roma, Rome
Category relationships: Antiquity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toga Virilis
Literary usage of Toga virilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1842)
"... or to some temple, to pay their devotions to the gods.4 The usual time of the
year for assuming the toga virilis was at the feasts of Bacchus in March.5 ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"This assumption of the toga virilis was called ... The toga virilis is called
libera by Ovid (Fasti, iii. 771). Girls wore the praetexta till their marriage ..."
3. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1837)
"... and allowed greater liberty.1 The usual time of the year for assuming the toga
virilis was at the feasts of Bacchus in March.5 Then the young man was ..."
4. Roman Antiquities by Alexander Adam (1833)
"The usual time of the year for assuming the toga virilis was at the feasts of
Bacchus in March, (Liberalibus, xii. Kal. Apr. Cic. Alt. vL 1.) Ovid. ..."
5. Roman antiquities: or An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1835)
"Servius appointed, that those who assumed the toga virilis should send a ...
men to assume 8 the toga virilis, sooner or later than the age of seventeen, ..."
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