Focale
Focale a covering for the throat (fauces), sometimes drawn also over the ears (Mart. 4.41), made of wool and worn by infirm and delicate persons. Its use by others was regarded as effeminate (Hor. Sat. 2.3, 255; Senec. Nat. Quaest. 4.13; Quint. Inst. 11.3.144; Mart. 14.142).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.