braccae

If you showed this list to a Roman and tried to tell him that it constituted torture in the 21st century, he'd have peed his braccae laughing.

Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos. Ann Althouse 2009

Narbonensis, came to have the epithet Braccata, from the use of the braccae, which were no part of the Roman dress.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Some writers suppose the braccae to have been breeches, but Aldus, in a short disquisition on the subject, affirms that they were a kind of upper dress.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Some writers suppose the braccae to have been breeches, but Aldus, in a short disquisition on the subject, affirms that they were a kind of upper dress.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Narbonensis, came to have the epithet Braccata, from the use of the braccae, which were no part of the Roman dress.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

(braccae, say of felt or rough-leather) were the only thing they had; being, as Livy testifies, naked down to the haunches: -- and, see, it is the same sort of work and of men still, now when they have got coats, and speak nasally a kind of broken Latin!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838