Note 304 — Chapter XII · THE REFORMER AND LEGISLATOR

We frequently hear in earlier times of the scandal caused by certain people abandoning the heavy and not very comfortable toga for lighter dress, Greek or Gallic. Those who care to trace the history of such a matter will find references to it in Cicero, pro Rab. Post. § 27; 2 Phil. § 76; Livy, 29, 19; Tac., Ann. ii. 59; Hor., Ep. 1, 7, 65. And if it is desired to see how futile such orders are against a prevailing fashion, the continued disuse of it may be traced in Juvenal 1, 119; 3, 172; Mart. 1, 49, 31; 12, 18, 17; Suet., Aug. 40; and as late as Hadrian we find that the order needed renewal, Spart. Had. 22. George III. insisting that Bishops should wear wigs is a case in point.