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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 ...
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 ...
Man in "toga" outfit. A toga party was depicted in the 1978 film Animal House, which propelled the ritual into a widespread and enduring practice. Chris Miller, who was one of the writers of Animal House, attended Dartmouth College where the toga party was a popular costume event at major fraternity parties (such as Winter Carnival and Green Key Weekend) during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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 ...
"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.
Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla. The stola (Classical Latin: [ˈst̪ɔ.ɫ̪a]) (pl. stolae) was the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga that was worn by men. [1]
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 ...
The largest U.S. government workers' union and an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the U.S ...