TOFFEE, or TOFFY, a sweetmeat made of sugar, melted with about half its weight of butter. Much care is required in making it, to insure its being crisp when cold. It should be kept over the fire and slightly simmered for a quarter of an how, when small drops are taken and let fall on a marble slab to cool quickly for trial; if they become brittle, it is complete. Everton, near Liverpool, has a name for its toffee.
TOGA (from Lat. tego, to cover) was the principal outer garment of the Romans, and originally, perhaps, the only one. Subsequently, an under-garment, the tunic, was added. It was probably of Etruscan origin, and yet it came to be considered the dis tinctive badge of the Roman citizen, whence the Roman people are called togati, or gees togata; and consequently, when the Cisalpine Gauls received the rights of citizenship, their country was spoken of as Gallia togata, inopposition to transalpine Gaul, or Gallia braccata (breeched). At first it was apparently semicircular in shape—so, at least, say Dionysius, Quintilian, and others—but afterward, when it came to be an elaborate and complicated dress, it must have been a smaller segment than a semicircle. The mode of
wearing the toga is difficult to describe, and required considerable art to make the folds fall gracefully. The toga was made of woolen cloth, and except in the case of mourn ers, was of a white color. Accused persons sought to excite sympathy by going about in a soiled (sordida) and unsightly toga; while those who were seeking office were wont to dress themselves out in garments which had been made artificially bright by the help of chalk, hence their name of candidati (lit. shining ones), candidates. The toga pratexta had a broad purple border, and was worn by children, and most though not all of the magistrates. The toga pieta, so called from being ornamented with embroidery, was worn by generals when enjoying their "triumphs." Under the emperors, the toga, as an article of common wear, fell into disuse, the Greek pallium and other garments being used instead; but it continued to he used by officials on solemn or festive occasions.