Crossword-Solution: SAGUM 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But my pension is overdue, and when I have changed the sagum for the toga, and the tent for some little farm up Como way, then I shall look more deeply into these things, if, perchance, I can find some one to instruct me." And so I left him.

They appear to have been in most favour among the Roman provincials in Gaul and Britain, particularly as the nature of the winters obliged them to seek in the heavy woollen _sagum_, or in the skin mantle, some greater protection against the inclemency of the weather than their southern conquerors required.

The "sagum" was a common military cloak, which the early Romans wore instead of the toga when they went out to war.

But Cicero had taken care that the sagum should be properly worn, and had even put it on himself--to do which as a Consular was not required of him.

The other clung to the back of his steed with his strong bare legs; he wore the sagum of the Celtiberians, a short wool tunic over which the broadsword hung from his shoulder, and his hair, as thick and dishevelled as his beard, outlined a brown and manly countenance.