In 215 B.C., the Lex Oppia law forbade women to do what?

The Lex Oppia was the first in a succession of Sumptuary Laws. It was specifically designed to limit a woman's wealth, and also her display of it. Females were forbidden to ride in a carpentum inside the city of Rome, or within 1-mile of the outskirts. According to Dio Cassius, the carpentum was a two-wheeled carriage with an arched covering, and was considered a conveyance of the privileged. Women were also prohibited from possessing more than half an ounce of gold, or to wear multicolored garments (especially clothing trimmed in purple). The Lex Oppia was repealed in 195 B.C., but by the first century A.D. was reinstated. Later Sumptuary Laws regulated food, clothing and luxury purchases of both men and women.

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