Note 1021 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY (continued 2)
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Polybius (vi. 53) says that the imago of the censor at a funeral was clad in purple. As all the insignia of the other magistrates that he mentions are those of their lifetime, this should be true of the censors. Perhaps the complete purple was worn for certain ceremonial purposes. Mommsen (Staatsr. i. pp. 411 and 446) thinks they were only buried in it.