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COLORS IN IMPERIAL ROME AND BYZANTIUM.
In imperial Rome purple, along with white and gold, became the color par excellence of wealth and supreme authority.
A reddish purple strped border distinguished the praetexta, the toga reserved for high status adolescents, just as the clavus, the stripe which diagonally crossed aristocrats’ torsos, was purple ; For military victories generals received a tunic, a toga and a purple mantle embroidered in gold.
