Note 311 — BOOK VI (continued 2)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
This seems to be the only authority for assigning to the censors the toga purpurea instead of the toga praetexta: and, indeed, Athenaeus speaks of them as wearing the toga praetexta (περιπόρφυρος), 14, 69. In Livy, 40, 45, they occupy sellae curules.