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  • Besides other marks of distinction, he wore a purple robe called laena, and a conical mitre called apex.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Besides other marks of distinction, he wore a purple robe called laena, and a conical mitre called apex.] [Footnote 7: Two powerful parties were contending at Rome for the supremacy; Sylla being at the head of the faction of the nobles, while

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Various men in particolored togas stood far back, some clad in laena and apex, shoes without laces or buckles.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The flamen wore a circular, poncholike cape, the laena, and the apex, a close-fitting ivory helmet surmounted by a spike on which was impaled a disc of wool.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Various men in particolored togas stood far back, some clad in laena and apex, shoes without laces or buckles.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The flamen wore a circular, poncholike cape, the laena, and the apex, a close-fitting ivory helmet surmounted by a spike on which was impaled a disc of wool.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The Report of the Commissioner of Fish & Fisheries (New England), register a Ba laena from the 1850's up till it's sale in while in the port New Bedford 1871.

    The Balaena 2000

  • He had always performed his religious duties with scrupulous care, but then he put on his apex and laena permanently, and adhered to all the prohibitions.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • If there had been, you'd wear the laena and apex for the rest of your life!

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • He indicated the laena and apex disposed neatly on a nearby couch.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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