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Both sexes also wore in travelling a thick, long cloak without sleeves, called the _pænula_, and the men wore also over the toga a dark cloak, the _lacerna_.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Many indications point to this conclusion, e.g. the lacerna, or birrus, and (civil) dalmatic, associated with the martyrdom of St. Cyprian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Juvenal (VI, 118) and Martial (XI, 98) refer to the cucullus of the lacerna.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Among the Romans, the hood (cucullus, a word of Celtic origin) was worn as a separate garment especially by drivers, herdsmen, and labourers; and by all classes as part of the lacerna, the birrus, and particularly the paenula, varieties of cloaks.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Ahenobarbus, dressed in the most fashionably cut scarlet lacerna, perfumed and coiffured to a nicety, appeared on the terrace.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Agias had brought for her a short, variegated _lacerna_ [132] which answered well enough as the habit of a boy-valet who was on good terms with his master.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Over this was a sumptuous _lacerna_ of silver tissue fastened over the right shoulder with a diamond _fibula_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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A white tunic and a paenula of fine white cloth or a lacerna, both being long and ample so as to fall in becoming folds, would be the best.
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Thus in the Fasti of Ovid, B. ii., l. 746, Lucretia is found amidst her female servants, making a cloak, or “lacerna,” for her husband.
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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"Good Flavius," said a player, holding his piece in suspended movement, "thou seest yon lacerna; that one in front of us on the divan.
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