most luxurious clothing was coloured. The toga picta, originally worn by the Roman kings, and later by triumphant generals, and the broad stripe of the toga praetexta, worn by senators and curule magistrates, were dyed with Tyrian purple. A similar reference to togae was made by a family of the patrician gens Sulpicia, which bore the cognomen Praetextatus. There are some persons bearing the gentile name Furius, who were plebeians, since they are mentioned as tribunes of the plebs; and those persons either had gone over from the patricians to the plebeians, or they were descended from freedmen or a particular family of the Furii, as is expressly stated in the case of one of them. Members Early Fusii Spurius Fusius, appointed by the Roman priests to undertake a ritual oath on behalf of the city prior to the combat of the Horatii and the Curiatii, during the reign of Tullus Hostilius. Furii Fusi Sextus Furius, consul in 488 BC. He is listed by Festus in 486 BC, possibly a military tribune, as one of a group who was burned for conspiring with the consul Spurius Cassius. Spurius Furius Fusus, consul in 481 BC. Sextus Furius Fusus, father of Agrippa Furius Fusus, the consular tribune of 391 BC. Marcus Furius Fusus, consular tribune in 403 BC. Agrippa Furius Sex. f. Fusus, consular tribune in 391 BC. Furii Medullini Lucius Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 474 BC. Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 472 BC. He was one of the triumviri agro dando who were appointed to assign land to the Roman colonists after the capture of Antium, in 467 BC. In 464, he served as legate under his brother, Spurius, and was slain in the Aequian war. Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 464 BC, conducted war against the Aequi. Agrippa Furius Fusus, consul in 446 BC. Lucius Furius S. f. Medullinus Fusus, the father of Camillus, was consular tribune in 432, 425, and 420 BC. Lucius Furius L. f. S. n. Medullinus, the elder brother of Camillus, was consul in 413 and 409 BC, and consular tribune in 407, 405, 398, 397, 395, 394, and 391 BC. Spurius Furius L. f. S. n. Medullinus, also a brother of Camillus, was consular tribune in 400 BC. Lucius Furius S. f. L. n. Medullinus, consular tribune in 381 and 370 BC, and censor in 363 BC. Spurius Furius S. f. L.