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The Tunic (Tunica)

The tunica was the everyday shirt worn under the toga or by itself at home and at work. A purple stripe could show a senator or a boy of a senatorial family.

Grades 3–8. Daily life.

How it connects

It is the ordinary garment, and the toga is the ceremonial one.

Latin words that go with this card: vestis, puer.

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