(adjective) : praetextātus, a, um, praetexta, under praetexo fin. B. 1.
* Clothed with or wearing the toga praetexta (class.): Clodius, qui numquam antea praetextatus fuisset,Cic. Pis. 4, 8: pupillus,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 151; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; 2, 43, 110: adulter,i. e. juvenile,Juv. 1, 78: imagines,Suet. Ner. 57: aetas,the age under seventeen years,Gell. 1, 23, 18: praetextata cultus amicitia,from childhood,Mart. 10, 20, 4.— Esp., subst.: praetextātus, i, m., one who wears the toga praetexta: delectu edicto, juniores ab annis septemdecim, et quosdam praetextatos scribunt,Liv. 22, 57; Suet. Rhet. 1: si quis praetextatum adsectatus fuerit,Gai. Inst. 3, 220; Juv. 10, 308.
* Transf., verba praetextata, prop., veiled or disguised words; hence, transf., equivocal, obscene, unchaste expressions (post-Aug.): praetextatis verbis abstinere,Suet. Vesp. 22: impudica et praetextata verba,Macr. S. 2, 1: non praetextatis, sed puris honestisque verbis,Gell. 9, 10, 4; cf. mores,Juv. 2, 170.

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