Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!
En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!
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Said disparagingly of a group of men in cloaks, quoting Virgil's The Aeneid. Augustus allowed only those wearing a toga and no cloak to enter the Forum; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 40. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.