Complex sentence: Clients seeking patronage had to attend the patron's early-morning formal "salutatione" ("greeting session"); citizen-clients were obliged to wear the toga appropriate to their status, and wear it correctly-or risk affront to their host.
Split into simpler sentences: Clients seeking patronage had to attend the patron's early-morning formal "salutatione" ("greeting session"). Citizens were obliged to wear the toga appropriate to their status, and wear it correctly-or risk affront to their host.