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He endeavoured also to restore the old habit and dress of the Romans; and upon seeing once, in an assembly of the people, a crowd in grey cloaks , he exclaimed with indignation, "See there, Romanos rerum dominos, gentemque togatem." Rome's conquering sons, lords of the wide-spread globe, Stalk proudly in the toga's graceful robe.
The old people of Rome were gone; their characteristic dress even was gone; for already in the time of Augustus they had laid aside the toga, and assumed the cheaper and scantier paenula, so that the eye sought in vain for Virgil's "Romanes rerum dominos gentemque togatam."
After paying his little homage to his patronus, in what way has he fought with the great enemy Time since then? Why, reader, this illustrates one of the most interesting features in the Roman character. The Roman was the idlest of men. "Man and boy," he was "an idler in the land." He called himself and his pals "rerum dominos, gentemque togatam;" the gentry that wore the toga.
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