Laena

Definition: The laena was a thick, shaggy, woolen cloak worn over a pallium or toga and fastened with a pin. The laena could serve as a robe of state. Cicero comments on a flamen sacrificing in his laena (instead of a toga praetexta). It may have been purple. Suetonius also mentions flamines sacrificing in the laena.

References:

• _{The Roman Toga, by Lillian May Wilson}
• _{The World of Roman Costume, by Judith Lynn Sebesta, Larissa Bonfante}
• _{William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities}
• _{Imperial Cult in the Latin West Volume 1, by Duncan Fishwick}