Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Stolata

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

STOLA'TA. Wearing the robe of a Roman matron (Pet. Sat. 44. 18.), as described and illustrated s. STOLA 1.; particularly as indicative of a chaste and virtuous female (whence pudor stolatus. Mart. i. 36.), because women of abandoned character, or who had been divorced on the ground of adultery, were not permitted to wear that article of attire.