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The army

The legion, its camp and standards, armour and weapons, and the triumph that crowned a victory.

  1. Exercitusarmy. Greek The earliest notices which we possess of the military art among the Greeks are those contained in the Homeric poems. The unsettled state of society in the fir…194 min read
  2. CastraI. hi Greek. The naval camp of the Greeks in Homer, lying between Rhoeteum and Sigeum, was very large. It had numerous streets which crossed one another (Il. 10.66), an a…48 min read
  3. Signa militariamilitaria We shall say a few words first on the troops to which the separate standards belonged and the function they fulfilled in the army, and afterwards discuss the fo…11 min read
  4. Triumphusis probably derived from the shout triumphe (connected with θρίαμβος) uttered by the soldiers and populace during the procession (Varro, L. L. 6.68, also occurring in the…21 min read
  5. Legatusis a person dispatched on an official mission, just as the neuter legatum is used of property of which the succession is determined with legal formality by the testator. …17 min read
  6. Gladiusa sword or glaive, by the Latin poets called ensis. The oldest Greek swords were of course of bronze, the one allusion to an iron sword in Homer (Hom. Il. 18.34)……5 min read
  7. Loricaa cuirass. The epithet λινοθώρηξ applied to two light-armed warriors in the Iliad (2.529, 830), although it occurs in the comparatively late catalogue of the Ships, indic…9 min read
  8. Testudoa tortoise, was the name given to several other objects. 1. To the Lyra, because it was sometimes made of a tortoise-shell. [LYRA] 2. To an arched or vaulted roof (Verg. …3 min read
  9. Coronaa crown; that is, a circular ornament of metal, leaves, or flowers, worn by the ancients round the head or neck, and used as a festive as well as funeral decoration, and …21 min read
  10. Galeaa helmet, a casque. The helmet was originally made of skin or leather, whence is supposed to have arisen its appellation, κυνέη, meaning properly a helmet of……3 min read
  11. Clipeusalso CLIPEUM (ἀσπίς, σάκος), the large shield used by the Greeks and the Romans, which was originally of circular shape, and is said to have been first used by Proetus an…8 min read