tunico, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. tunica, to clothe with a tunic. In the verb. finit. only once: tunicare homulum, Varr. ap. Non. 182, 17.

— In part. perf. (freq. and class.): tunicātus, a, um, clothed with a tunic, Cic. Cael. 5, 11; cf. in poet. transf., of life in the country: o tunicata quies! Mart. 10, 51, 6.

—Of the common people, who went clothed simply with the tunic: novistin' tu illunc tunicatum hominem? Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 2: qui metus erat tunicatorum illorum? Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 94: popellus, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 65; Tac. Or. 7.

—So of the Carthaginians: juventus, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 12 (Ann. v. 331 Vahl.).

— Transf., covered with a coat, skin, or peel, coated: tunicatum caepe, Pers. 4, 3.