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Toga candida: "Bright toga"; a toga rubbed with chalk to a dazzling white, worn by candidates (from Latin candida, "pure white") for public office. [11] Thus Persius speaks of a cretata ambitio, "chalked ambition". Toga candida is the etymological source of the word candidate. Toga pulla: a "dark toga" was supposed to be worn by mourners at ...
"Liber" is also understood in terms of "libation", the ritual offering of drink, related to Greek "spondé" and English "to spend". Roman writers of the late Republic and early Empire offer various etymological and poetic speculations based on this trope, to explain certain features of Liber's cult.
when the undying moment does not arise because the breath is unrestrained [even] when the image is seen by means of withdrawal and the other (auxiliaries of yoga, i.e. dhyana, pranayama, dharana, anusmrti and samadhi), then, having forcefully (hathena) made the breath flow in the central channel through the practice of nada, which is about to ...
Toga (surname), a list of people; Academic dress, also known as a toga in some countries; Toga language (disambiguation) Torra di Toga, a tower in Ville-di-Pietrabugno, Corsica; Himiko Toga, a recurring villain in the anime and manga series My Hero Academia; Toga, an African penguin who was stolen from the Amazon World Zoo Park, Isle of Wight ...
First, though, travel a little further back in time with a toga party Friday night capped off by fireworks. “The wine festival opens at the track Friday evening with our Launch of the Lake, a ...
Unless the pontifex maximus was also a magistrate, he was not allowed to wear the toga praetexta, i.e. toga with the purple border. In artistic representations, he can be recognized by his holding an iron knife ( secespita ) [ 9 ] or the patera , [ 23 ] and the distinctive robes or toga with part of the mantle covering the head ( capite velato ...
By that, I mean, your servers. Yes, yes, give it up," she joked. She then referred to actors Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell as "absolute Hollywood legends," earning a curious look ...
"Part of the message of even the first song on the album is that your demons are with you in the beginning and they are with you in the end, and I don’t mean it in a bleak way."