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His courage and steadfastness never fail him; he looks ever forward, confident in divine protection; the shield he carries is adorned -- a wonderful stroke of poetic genius -- with scenes of the future, and not of the past (viii. 729 foll.): talia per clipeum Volcani, dona parentis, miratur rerumque ignarus imagine gaudet attollens umero famamque et fata nepotum.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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V. ii.l7 (327,4) [I give thee the bucklers] I suppose that _to give the bucklers_ is, _to yield_, or _to lay by all thoughts of defence_, so _clipeum abjicere_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Scutum, clipeum et parmam unde adpellent Romani, et quod horum discrimen.
Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De magistratibus reipublicae Romanae ... Johannes Laurentius Lydus, Jean Dominique Fuss, Charles Benoît Hase 1812
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Mauriciua cum ftem - mate criftato, d. geftat globmncru - cigerum, C clipeum.,
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1795
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Soria gradicns» d. clipeum tencr, in quo S.P. Q. 1\.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1793
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Se fij! ura galeata d. hadam, f. clipeum Tb.So. fg.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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Ead* epigr. fed Pallas galfeata ft. d., viaor, f. ha«. ftaro et clipeum.
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Nnni. ai5 fq. • — fcd ViSo» 'fU fimmt ante clipeum » ambabut i zootm vel cingulum.
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PROPVGNATOREM PIL Mars erad.d. halHm, 'f.clipeum. % IMP.
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C; Viftoria trunco arboris clipeum adpendens, in quo eadcm infcriptio.
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