[3] togae: That is, a woman wearing a toga, or the sort of woman who would. Proper “matronae” wore the “stola”; only a prostitute or a very low-class woman would wear a toga.
pressum quasillo scortum: a slave carrying a heavy basket of wool to be spun. This image contrasts with that of the toga-clad woman, since spinning and wool-work were traditional tasks for the virtuous Roman lady; see, for example, Lucretia in Livy 1.57ff.This text is part of:
Sulpicia: Text, translation, and commentary. Anne Mahoney. 2000. Text created electronically.
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