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.
Causa plus petitur, uelut si quis in intentione tollat electionem debitoris quam is habet obligationis iure:
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.
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?