toga praetextus -- high magistrate's purple bordered toga

    praetextus adj.    [P. of praetexo], bordered, edged: toga, bordered with purple (worn by the higher magistrates; also by free-born children less than seventeen years of age): aedilicia: togae praetextae habendae ius, L.: eripies pupillae togam praetextam?—As subst f., the toga praetexta: tu in praetextā esse consulatum putas?— Wearing the toga praetexta, with a purple border on the mantle: videre praetextos inimicos, i. e. in supreme power.—As subst f. (sc. fabula), a play in which the bordered toga is worn, tragedy (because eminent Romans were among the characters): praetextas docere, H.