Note 2672 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
On the occasion of a triumph, the victor was arrayed in a “toga picta,” an embroidered garment, which, from the present passage, would appear to have been of purple and gold. Pliny tells us, B. xxxiii. c. 19, that Tarquinius, on his triumph over the Sabines, wore a robe of cloth of gold.