[p. 59] reproached Publius Sulpicius Gallus, an effeminate man, included this also, that he wore tunics which covered his whole hands. Scipio's words are these: 1 “For one who daily perfumes himself and dresses before a mirror, whose eyebrows are trimmed, who walks abroad with beard plucked out and thighs made smooth, who at banquets, though a young man, has reclined in a long-sleeved tunic on the inner side of the couch with a lover, who is fond not only of wine but of men—does anyone doubt that he does what wantons commonly do?” Virgil too attacks tunics of this kind as effeminate and shameful, saying: 2
Sleeves have their tunics, and their turbans, ribbons.Quintus Ennius also seems to have spoken not without scorn of “the tunic-clad men” of the Carthaginians. 3
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[13arg] Whom Marcus Cato calls classici or “belonging to a class,” and whom infra classem or “below class.”NOT all those men who were enrolled in the five classes 4 were called classici, but only the men of the first class, who were rated at a hundred and twenty-five thousand asses or more. But those of the second class and of all the other classes, who were rated at
