bracatus

brācātus, a, um, adj. [id.].

I.

Wearing trowsers or breeches.

A.

A gen. epithet for foreign, barbarian, effeminate:

sic existimatis eos hic sagatos bracatosque versari,

Cic. Font. 15, 33 (11, 23):

nationes,

id. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

miles,

Prop. 3 (4), 4, 17:

turba Getarum,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 47 Jahn:

Medi,

Pers. 3, 53.—

B.

As a geog. designation of the land and the people beyond the Alps, = transalpinus, in distinction from togatus (q. v.):

Gallia Bracata, afterwards called Gallia Narbonensis,

Mel. 2, 5, 1; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 31; cf.:

bracatis et Transalpinis nationibus,

Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2.—Hence, sarcastically:

O bracatae cognationis dedecus (kindr. with the people of Gallia Bracata, through his maternal grandfather, Calventius),

Cic. Pis. 23, 53: bracatorum pueri, boys from Gallia Narbonensis, Juv. 8, 234.—

II.

In gen., wearing broad garments:

Satarchae totum bracati corpus,

Mel. 2, 1, 10.