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Actors who played the genre of the fabula palliata, wore the pallium, after which the genre was named. It was a small cape which was an imitation of the himation worn by Greek Actors in other plays wore a purple gown for rich man,a striped toga for a boy, a short cloak for a soldier, a red toga for a poor man and a short tunic for a slave.

Actors wore masks. Women were not allowed act, so their parts were played by a man or young boy wearing a white mask. The masks for male character were brown. The masks could be be smiling sad, frowning and the like, depending on the character.

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