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tŭnĭca , ae, f. perh. for tog-nica, from tego,
I.an under-garment of the Romans worn by both sexes, a tunic.
I. Lit., Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 46; 5, 2, 60; id. Mil. 3, 1, 93; 5, 30; id. Pers. 1, 3, 75; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60; id. de Or. 2, 47, 195; Hor. S. 1, 2, 132; id. Ep. 1, 1, 96; 1, 18, 33.—A tunic with long sleeves was thought effeminate, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 48; Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22; Suet. Calig. 52; Gell. 7, 12, 4: “et tunicae manicas habent,” Verg. A. 9, 616: “manicata,” Curt. 3, 3, 13; cf. Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 194: “tunicas mutare cottidie,” Hier. Ep. 22, 32.—Prov.: tunica propior pallio est, my tunic is nearer than my cloak (like the Engl. near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin), Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 30.—
II. Transf., a coating, skin, tegument, membrane, husk, peel, etc., = velamentum, membrana: “se medio trudunt de cortice gemmae Et tenues rumpunt tunicas,” Verg. G. 2, 75: “cum teretes ponunt tunicas aestate cicadae,” Lucr. 4, 58; so, “oculorum,” Cels. 7, 7, 14; Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 147: “boletorum,” id. 22, 22, 46, § 93: “corticis,” id. 24, 3, 3, § 7; cf.: “inter corticem ac lignum tenues tunicae multiplici membranā,” id. 16, 14, 25, § 65; 16, 36, 65, § 163.
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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    • Plautus, Persa, 1.3
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 2.4
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.616
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.75
    • Horace, Satires, 1.2.132
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 2.2
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    • Plautus, Trinummus, 5.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.47
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.58
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 52
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.65
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    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.20
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 7.12.4
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7.7
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 3.3.13
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