togata

togata

1. feminine singular of togato

Ellipsis of fābula togāta, referring to the clothing customs of the Romans to wear the toga, as opposed to the pallium of the Greeks and the fābula palliāta.

• togāta:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɔˈɡaː.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [toˈɡaː.ta]
• togātā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɔˈɡaː.taː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [toˈɡaː.ta]

togāta f (genitive togātae); first declension

1. (comedy) a play involving Roman characters, in Roman dress and Roman settings, especially a comedy

   Synonym: tabernāria

   Coordinate terms: palliāta, Ātellāna, plānipedia, Rhinthōnica, mīmus

   Hypernyms: cōmoedia, fābula

   • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 55.118:

     Nam cum ageretur togata 'simulans,' ut opinor, caterva tota clarissima concentione in ore impuri hominis imminens contionata est.

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   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, 8 7:

     Multi enim sunt ex his togatis quibus pax operosior bello est: an idem existimas pro pace debere eos qui illam ebrietati aut libidini impendunt aut aliis vitiis quae vel bello rumpenda sunt?

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   • c. 19 BCE, Horace, Ars Poetica 286–288:

     Nec minimum meruere decus vestigia Graeca
     Ausi deserere et celebrare domestica facta,
     Vel qui praetextas vel qui docuere togatas.

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   • c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory 10.1.100:

     Togatis excellit Afranius; utinam non inquinasset argumenta puerorum foedis amoribus mores suos fassus.

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   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Neronis 11:

     inducta Afrani togata, quae Incendium inscribitur, concessumque ut scaenici ardentis domus supellectilem diriperent ac sibi haberent

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   • mid 4th c. CE, Aelius Donatus, Excerpta de Comoedia 6.1–5:

     Fabula generale nomen est: eius duae primae partes, tragoedia et comoedia. <Tragoedia>, si Latina argumentatio sit, praetexta dicitur. Comoedia autem multas species habet: aut enim palliata est aut togata aut tabernaria aut Atellana aut mimus aut Rinthonica aut planipedia. […] Comoediarum formae sunt tres: palliatae Graecum habitum referentes, togatae iuxta formam personarum habitum togarum desiderantes, quas nonnulli tabernarias uocant, Atellanae salibus et iocis compositae, quae in se non habent nisi uetustatum elegantias.

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   • late 4th century CE, Diomedes Grammaticus, Artis Grammaticae libri III 489:

     Togatae fabulae dicuntur quae scriptae sunt secundum ritus et habitum hominum togatorum, id est Romanorum (toga namque Romana est), sicut Graecas fabulas ab habitu aeque palliatas Varro ait nominari.

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First-declension noun.

• praetexta

togāta

1. inflection of togātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

togātā

1. ablative feminine singular of togātus

• “tŏgāta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tŏgāta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “togata”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “togata”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers