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A boy from Watts stares at the ocean, imagining ancient Greek boats sailing across the Pacific and his father in a toga and sneakers, proudly hoisting a trident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Its stitched-together scenes—frat pledge party, dining hall food fight, toga party, horse in Dean Wormer’s office, homecoming parade—were individually hilarious and held together only by the individual characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Others have stated that an ounce of gold was enough to buy a good toga in Roman times and is enough to buy a man’s suit today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
An oversized floral print on a draped toga dress seemed to capture the Beatles’ psychedelic era, almost transporting wearers to London’s Camden vintage shops.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
He pats my knee and adjusts his toga so it doesn’t reveal too much while he sits in the low auditorium seat.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Another line quoted in the 2nd Philippic is Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
He left a number of "togae" to his Oxford friends, including Robert Holler, the son of his Norfolk neighbour, to whom he also bequeathed "unum pulvinar vocatum le bolstar."
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
The truth is that in this age cedant arma togae: it is the civilian who rules on the throne or behind it, and who makes the fighting-men his mere agents.
From Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
When the Romans said "cedant arma togae," they did not refer to civil officials and soldiers; the civil officials were then soldiers in their turn; professional soldiers did not exist.
From Battle Studies by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq
"Cedant arma togae," said Villefort with a bow.
From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
There was a brief discussion of togas and other Roman paraphernalia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The 1930s-era news accounts describe lavish parties with male servers draped in togas.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Owens has always had an aesthetic riffing on the garb of Ancient Egypt, with togas, drapes and high priestess styles gracing his runways.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
They wore white togas or fancy hats or clean gloves.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2021
Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing toga
Ancient Rome - Introductory
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Ancient Rome - Middle School and High School
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The Roman Republic, Lessons 1–2
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