LACERNA

A long woollen military cloak, worn at first only by the Roman soldiers, but which increased so much in fashion that at the period of the triumvirate it became a favourite piece of dre with all the higher cla es of Roman citizens, both civil and military, and remained so till the times of the emperors Val ent in i an and Theodosius, when the senators were prohibited from wearing them in the city. Martial speaks of lacema; which cost 10,000 ses terces (801.) [s. 650]