TOGATI. Rom. civ, law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the
usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it
whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This
denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial
constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati,
consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those
acts.