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Hmmm, I've been trying to get one made like that! :lol:
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Maximio,
I would steer clear of borders on togas. You are rather too old to wear a toga praetexta and borders on togas seem to be someting that was regulated quite strictly. Whether this was as true in the provices as in Italy is a matter of conjecture but certainly in Italy things like that would have noted quickly and unfavourably by the establishment. I think it is worth noting that in the Caena Tremalcionis (Dinner with Tremalcio) in the Satiricon, Tremalcio, a pretentious freedman who has become fabulously wealthy, wears a gold ring but on a chain around his neck because only a senator could wear a gold ring on his finger, and although he dines wearing a toga he also wears a bib with a purple border in order to give him the affectation of the senator's border without risking his safety by having a border on the toga itself.
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About your answer, Crispvs, I have a doubt: Tradicionally, the senator's ring was an iron ring. When it became a gold ring more or less?
Can you put exactly in which line we can find the reference of the Cena Trimalchionis?
Thank you very much :wink:
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Unfortunately my copy is on the other side of the world right now and it is a while since I looked at it. I am certain it is there though, near to the beginning of the scene when Encolpius and Giton are shown into the dining room and after a pause to take in the surroundings, Tremalcio enters and the author comments on his appearance.
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