Tam longinquo orbe petitur, ut in publico matrona transluceat ...ut denudet foeminas vestis, (Plin. vi. 20, xi. 21.)
Varro and Publius Syrus had already played on the Toga
vitrea, ventus texilis, and nebula linen, (Horat. Sermon. i. 2, 101, with the notes of Torrentius and Dacier.)