Tam longinquo orbe petitur, ut in publico matrona
transluceat ...ut denudet fœminas vestis, (Plin. vi. 20, xi.
21.)
Varro and Publius Syrus had already played on the Toga vitrea, ventus textilis, and nebula linea (Horat. Sermon. i. 2, 101, with the notes of Torrentius and Dacier.)