Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trabea

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. 

TRAB'EA. A toga, either entirely of purple, or ornamented with one or more horizontal stripes of that colour; the former forming the sacred drapery of deity, the latter a royal robe, adopted by Romulus and the early kings, from whom it descended to the consuls, who wore it upon certain public solemnities, and to the equites or knights, who wore it at their review before the Censor. (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. vi. 612. Plin. H. N. viii. 74. Val. Max. ii. 2. 9.) The method of adjusting it was the same as that described under the article TOGA; more especially as regards the earliest styles, when the drapery was less profuse in its folds and dimensions, whence it is distinguished by the epithet parva. Virg. Aen. vii. 187.