Applico me illi proximius et spisse deosculata sagum peto. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Gauls in their pride stripped themselves of the sagum; they showed their great white bodies from a distance, and they enlarged their wounds to terrify the enemy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A proclamation was issued to the effect that it was no longer necessary for Roman citizens to wear the sagum. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
"Come in, come in!" said Gaius Julius Caesar, welcoming his guest in person at the door, and holding out his own finely made hands to receive the awful sagum. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
They turned to walk back into the house, where Caesar sent a sleepy servant to fetch the old sagum for its owner. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
However, he had thrown his old campaigning sagum over his finery — a thick, greasy, malodorous cape which could keep out the perishing winds of the alpine passes or the soaking days-long downpours of Epirus. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
The clothing common to all is a sagum [101] fastened by a clasp, or, in want of that, a thorn. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
Mela (iii. 3), speaking of the Germans, says, "The men are clothed only with the sagum, or the bark of trees, even in the depth of winter." ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
By a German council of 742, priests and deacons are bidden to wear habitually not the sagum, or short military cloak, but the casula (chasuble), which even then had not become an exclusively liturgical dress. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Gallic sagum, and the Morvandial, although gradually losing his once so strongly-marked characteristics, prefers his own dialect to French. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
They appear to have been in most favour among the Roman provincials in Gaul and Britain, particularly as the nature of the winters obliged them to seek in the heavy woollen _sagum_, or in the skin mantle, some greater protection against the inclemency of the weather than their southern conquerors required. ❋ Unknown (1840)
To spirits so absorbed, hours fly like minutes, and none of those guilty men were aware of the lapse of time, until Catiline returned, dressed in a suit of splendid armor, of blue Iberian steel, embossed with studs and chasings of pure silver, with a rich scarlet sagum over it, fringed with deep lace. ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)
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. ❋ Unknown (1830)
_sagum_, or robe of war which he also (waving his privilege as a man of consular rank) wore himself. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
_sagum_, or robe of war; and that a supplication should be decreed in honour of the consuls and Octavius. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
The worst of it was that though each legionary’s pack held warm breeches, socks, the wonderful waterproof circular sagum, and neck scarves, still he froze, unable to warm himself by a fire. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
Empire in the first century, when Romans were warriors still, preserving, amid some effeminacy, much of the hardy vigour of their Republican predecessors, ever and anon throwing aside the toga for the sagum, and rushing from the Forum to the field, to battle with ferocious and demi-nude savages, whom ever subduing they carried home captives chained to their triumphal chariots; but it does seem to be uncommonly applicable to a time when many a priest, whose writings manifest a lax habit of thinking and betray ❋ John Wilson Ross (1852)
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