and with his belt … gird your loins, and you will be changed and become another man.” Joshua does so and “when he clothed himself … his mind was afire and his spirit moved” (LAB 20.2–3). Dionysius of Halicarnassus says that to put on another’s clothes is to play the other’s role (Ant. rom. 11.5). At other times, the notion was understood metaphorically. To speak about putting on or putting off or being given a garment came to be associated with the empowerment of an individual personally and ethically.