Paper on the meaning of the fringed cloak in the Roman portraiture from the Late Republic to the Augustan Age. The existing statues suggest that the use of a fringed cloak mainly involved the Roman military image; the literary evidence confirms that Roman soldiers and officers actually wore fringed cloaks (lacernae) in the field and this garment might also be considered by the Romans as a typical military (castrensis) costume in contrast to the civilian toga. Therefore, we can identify the fringed mantle as a characteristic Roman military cloak.
