Cloak
object · 6 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
cloak · my cloak · a cloak · his clothing · the cloak · the pallium · their cloaks · their spoils · your cloak
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe Cloak“Pallium”2 mentions
De Pallio (Latin) · Theaetetus (Greek)
Yet, you say, thus from the toga to the cloak?
Cloaks“the Victims' Clothing”1 mention
The First Tetralogy (Greek)
and the victims were found still wearing their cloaks.
in the texts
The First Tetralogy
The garments the victims were still wearing when found dead, central to the dispute over whether robbery-for-clothing was the true motive for the killing or a fact that instead rules robbery out.
and the victims were found still wearing their cloaks.
Further, he may not in fact have been murdered for his clothing;
If the approach of passers-by startled his assailants into quitting him before they had had time to strip him, they showed sense, not madness, in preferring their lives to their spoils.
Against Conon
The garment allegedly stripped from the plaintiff and taken by Conon's group.
That his cloak was stripped off?
They first stripped me of my cloak, and then, tripping me up they thrust me into the mud and leapt upon me and beat me with such violence that my lip was split open and my eyes closed;
—as though you would believe them off-hand, and would have no regard to the truth of the matter that, to begin with, Lysistratus and Paseas and Niceratus and Diodorus, who have expressly testified that they saw me being beaten by Conon, stripped of my cloak, and suffering all the other forms of brutal outrage I experienced—men, remember, who were unacquainted with me and who happened on the affair …
Odyssey
A cloak laid over Odysseus by the women of the household as he sleeps on the hide.
he insisted on having an undressed bullock's hide and some sheepskins put for him in the room and I threw a cloak over him myself.
Odysseus slept in the room upon an undressed bullock's hide, on the top of which he threw several skins of the sheep the suitors had eaten, and Eurynome threw a cloak over him after he had laid himself down.
Theaetetus
A bought cloak kept but not worn, used as the illustrative example distinguishing possession from active having.
Well, then, having does not seem to me the same as possessing.
De Fuga in Persecutione
A garment cited alongside the tunic in the saying about non-resistance, conditionally conceded by the author.
I will concede my cloak too, to one not threatening betrayal.
De Pallio
The philosopher's mantle (pallium), the titular garment whose merits are defended and which is personified as speaking in its own defense.
Yet, you say, thus from the toga to the cloak?
This, no doubt, will be the indignity — From the toga to the cloak.
The cloak too, in its outward fashion, itself foursquare, thrown back from either flank and drawn close about the neck, rested upon the shoulders in the bite of a clasp.