I.trowsers, breeches; orig. worn only by barbarians, i.e. neither Greeks nor Romans: “barbara tegmina crurum,” Verg. A. 11, 777; “in the time of the emperors also among the Romans,” Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 49: Galli bracas deposuerunt, latum clavum sumpserunt, Poët. ap. Suet. Caes. 80 al.: “virgatae,” Prop. 4 (5), 10, 43: “bracas indutus,” Tac. H. 2, 20; Juv. 2, 169: “pictae,” Val. Fl. 6, 227: “Sarmaticae,” id. 5, 424: “albae,” Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 fin. al.; Cod. Th. 14, 10, 2; cf. Burm. Anth. Lat. 2, p. 518, and bracatus.
brācae (not braccae ), ārum (once in sing. brāca , ae, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 34; and as access. form brāces , Edict. Diocl. p. 20), f. Germ.; Swed. brōk; Angl. -Sax. brōk; Engl. breeches; Dutch, broek,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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