Purple
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Tyrian purple · purple · purpuram
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Dyed cloth used as the example commodity in the genus-versus-species illustration of plus petitio.
So if he stipulated for a genus and demands a species, stipulated, for instance, for purple and demands Tyrian purple, even though he demand the cheapest species, he claims more than his due, for the same reason.
Causa plus petitur, uelut si quis in intentione tollat electionem debitoris quam is habet obligationis iure:
Letters to Lucilius
Purple-dyed clothing, a marker of status and luxury, cited as something worn only to be seen by others.
Who puts on purple that he is to show to no one?