unchaste expressions

praetextātus, a, um, adj. [praetexta, under praetexo fin. B. 1.], clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta (class.):

Clodius, qui numquam antea praetextatus fuisset,

Cic. Pis. 4, 8:

pupillus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 151; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; 2, 43, 110:

adulter,

i. e. juvenile, Juv. 1, 78:

imagines,

Suet. Ner. 57:

aetas,

the age under seventeen years, Gell. 1, 23, 18:

praetextata cultus amicitia,

from childhood, Mart. 10, 20, 4.— Esp., subst.: praetextātus, i, m., one who wears the toga praetexta:

delectu edicto, juniores ab annis septemdecim, et quosdam praetextatos scribunt,

Liv. 22, 57; Suet. Rhet. 1:

si quis praetextatum adsectatus fuerit,

Gai. Inst. 3, 220; Juv. 10, 308. —

Transf., verba praetextata, prop., veiled or disguised words; hence, transf., equivocal, obscene, unchaste expressions (post-Aug.):

praetextatis verbis abstinere,

Suet. Vesp. 22:

impudica et praetextata verba,

Macr. S. 2, 1:

non praetextatis, sed puris honestisque verbis,

Gell. 9, 10, 4; cf.

mores,

Juv. 2, 170.