The book Gallus Or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus was written by author Wilhelm Adolf Becker Here you can read free online of Gallus Or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Gallus Or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus a good or bad book?
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43 and 49, may be com- ' pared. The parts named by Quinctilian are clearly visible, and it is easy to point out the velut batteus, the sinus, and the ora duplex, although it is very difficult to unravel the robe in one's mind, or to produce a similar adjustment. After manifold experiments with square and round cloths, the author became convinced that it re- quires a half-round and very long robe, but broader or wider, in proportion to its length, than the segment of a circle would be. This garm...ent was also first thrown across the left shoulder, but the portion with the point depending in front, was brought down much lower, (in our statue as low as the feet ; in those in the August. 124, and in the Mus. Borb. Vii. 49, it even falls on the ground), and this of itself covered the left arm entirely. The toga was then drawn behind the back, and so on to the front of the body, and then doubled together in a fold at about the middle of its breadth, so that the upper part fell down as a sinus, and the lower part covered the body and the legs ; thus arose the bundle of folds crossing ob- liquely i'rom under the right arm, athwart the breast, 1 and which is 1 Probably the following remarks by I the magnificent statue of Tiberius in M.
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