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Requested merge

In Toga Candida → Cicero – The speech does not appear to be notable enough have an article for itself and would therefore seems more suitable to be merged to the author’s page. Tanbircdq (talk) 20:33, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Oppose. First, I think you've chosen the wrong template: you seem to be proposing a merge. Second, if it were merged, the appropriate article would be Writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero, not his biography. Third, even a fragmentary speech by Cicero will have sufficient scholarship to support its notability and to create a well-developed article. This one just happens to be a stub not marked as such, but I'll add the stub template. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:52, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Oppose per above. ♦ Tentinator ♦ 13:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Oppose move, merger or deletion per Cynwolfe. This is a stub in need of some lovin'. A major fragmentary speech of Cicero's will meet items 1 and 6 in the criteria at WP:BKCRIT. davidiad { t } 22:08, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Oppose AfD/Merge/Move - per Cynwolfe, Tentinator and Davidiad. Would easily survive AfD (see added 2 sentences and 3 new sources). And Cicero article is bulky enough already. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:33, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
This is a merge request, not a move request. Rephrasing and reformatting to reflect this. — AjaxSmack 00:06, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Not sure this needs to be clarified, but all the opposes above still hold for a merge. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:14, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

"Specially whitened .. togas"

My impression was tht candidates wore (special?) white togas - so marks of rank, status, wealth etc were excluded and would not influence voting. That is, the togas weren’t specially made white: they were white in the first place. Can anyone advise? (and/or amend the article?) – SquisherDa (talk) 14:32, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

No, the togas were laundered and bleached and whitened with chalk, as described in the article. The marks of wealth and status (narrow purple stripe for equestrians, broad purple stripe for senators) would also be visible on the toga candida. Xiphophilos (talk) 16:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

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