45.2
He was somewhat overnice in the care of his person, being not only carefully trimmed and shaved, but even having superfluous hair plucked out, as some have charged; while his baldness was a disfigurement which troubled him greatly, since he found that it was often the subject of the gibes of his detractors. Because of it he used to comb forward his scanty locks from the crown of his head, and of all the honours voted him by the senate and people there was none which he received or made use of more gladly than the privilege of wearing a laurel wreath at all times.
45.3
They say, too, that he was fantastic in his dress; that he wore a senator’s tunicLatus clavus, the broad purple stripe, is also applied to a tunic with the broad stripe. All senators had the right to wear this; the peculiarity in Caesar’s case consisted in the long fringed sleeves. with fringed sleeves reaching to the wrist, and always had a girdle While a girdle was commonly worn with the ordinary tunic, it was not usual to wear one with the latus clavus; Quint. 2. 3. 138. The looseness of the girdle was an additional peculiarity. over it, though rather a loose one;and this, they say, was the occasion of Sulla’s mot, when he often warned the nobles to keep an eye on the ill-girt boy.
