by various authors, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities… (1890)
“ Agr. 59) to have been not confined to military wear; and the abolla similarly had become in imperial times an indiscriminately worn garment. Thus we find it used as an outdoor dress in Juvenal, 4.76. Ptolemy of Mauretania offended Caligula by the splendour of his purpurea abolla (Suet. Cal. 35) , and Martial satirizes a similar extravagance in the fop Crispinus (abolla Tyria, 8.48) . ”
