FOCA´LE
FOCA´LE a covering for the throat (
fauces), sometimes drawn also over the ears (
Mart. 4.41), made of wool and worn by infirm and
delicate persons. Its use by others was regarded as effeminate (Hor.
Sat. 2.3, 255; Senec.
Nat. Quaest. 4.13;
Quint.
Inst. 11.3.144;
Mart. 14.142).
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