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Actæon, while listening to the conversation of these various groups, glanced toward the temple and thought that he saw in the crowd streaming up and down the steps the Celtiberian shepherd who had killed the Roman legionary the night before. It was a swift vision; his dark sagum vanished in the multitude, and the Greek was uncertain if it were really he. The morning advanced.
Sagum. Then of a sudden, like the interval between the recession of one wave and the advance of a second billow, came a moment of silence; and into that silence Antonius broke, with a voice so strong, so piercing, so resonant, that the most envenomed oligarch checked his clamour to give ear. "Hearken, ye senators of the Republic, ye false patres, ye fathers of the people who are no fathers!
As the bulk increased, the roar deepened; the black lessened into varying hues. To the glisten came the glint of steel; the cobra changed into a multitude, the escort of a squad of soldiery, fronted by a centurion and led by the banner of Imperial Rome. Behind the centurion, Jesus, in his faded sagum, staggered, overweighted by the burden of a cross.
Cellars under ground were unknown to the Romans. See Beck. Gal., and Smith's Dict. Ant. Ignorantur fallunt. XVII. Sagum. A short, thick cloak, worn by Roman soldiers and countrymen. Fibula==figibula, any artificial fastening; spina==natural. Si desit. Observe the difference between this clause, and si quando advenit in the preceding chapter.
In his order of battle, he placed their cavalry on the right wing, and in the centre their infantry, whom he united to the Spanish infantry, and whom he commanded in person: the Gaulish foot, as was their custom on all occasions when they were determined to conquer or die, threw off their tunic and sagum, and fought naked from their waist upwards, armed with their long and pointless sabres.
Mocked by the odor of the viands and sauces, he turned to flee, tearing himself away from this torture of Tantalus, but as he drew back he bumped against a tall man clad only in a dark sagum and sandals with straps crossed to the knees.
Both, however, refer the story not to the time at which Tarentum was taken, but to the year after, when altercations about it took place in the senate. TOGA: here put for 'civil life', the toga being replaced in time of war by the sagum.
On leaving the bath, he was clothed in a white tunic, which was symbolical of purity, and a red robe, which was symbolical of the blood he was bound to shed in the service of the faith, and a black sagum or close-fitting coat, which was symbolical of the death which awaited him as well as all men. "Thus purified and clothed, the candidate observed for four and twenty hours a strict fast.
After having traced the Gaul for so long in the field, we love to follow him into his cabin to observe his appearance, his pursuits, his habits to mark the manly figure, the fair complexion, the flowing yellow locks, the glittering helmet surmounted with the antlers of the stag, the buckler covered with all the colours of the rainbow, the polished cuirass flashing back the rays of the morning sun, the heavy sabre hanging from the gold-bespangled belt, the precious necklace, the rich armlets, the bright and variegated hues of the martial sagum or mantle, of the noble Gaulish warrior.
The Paenula. The Lacema, with its Cucullus. The Paludamentum. The Sagum, or soldier's jerkin. The Trabea: of which, according to Suetonius, there was three kinds. But what are all these to the breeches? said my father. Rubenius threw him down upon the counter all kinds of shoes which had been in fashion with the Romans. There was, The open shoe. The close shoe. The slip shoe. The wooden shoe.
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