Trabea

{{Short description|Ancient Roman clothing}} {{For|the spider genus|Trabea (spider)}} {{Italics title}} '''''Trabea''''' ({{plural form}}: ''trabeae'') is the name of various pieces of Roman clothing. A distinct feature of all ''trabeae'' was their color – usually red or purple. They were formed like a toga and possibly in some cases like a mantle and worn by more distinguished members of Roman society.

A garment known as the ''trabea triumphalis'' was commonly worn by consuls in late antiquity. When Emperor Justinian I abolished the office of consul as a separate entity from the Emperor himself, the ''trabea triumphalis'' developed into the ''loros'', which was the worn only by the imperial family and senior administrative officials. Although Emperor Leo VI abolished the ancient title of consul altogether, the ''loros'' persisted until the end of the empire as the formal, ceremonial dress of the emperors.

== See also == * Clothing in ancient Rome

==References== *Philip Smith: ''Toga''. In: William Smith (Hrsg.): ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities''. John Murray, London, 1875 ([https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Toga.html online copy] at LacusCurtius) *Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: ''Greek and Roman dress from A to Z''. Routledge 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-415-22661-5}}, p. 197 ({{Google books|EBaBYjM_pVcC|online copy|Page=197}}) *J. C. Edmondson, Alison Keith: ''Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture''. University of Toronto Press 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-8020-9319-6}}, S. 13, 27, 32, 42, 43, 217-237 ({{Google books|bYCCpqdgSAgC|online copy|Page=219}})

==External links== *[http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress-toga-trabea.html Picture of a man dressed with tunica and trabea] at roman-empire.net

Category:Clothing in ancient Rome Category:Dresses