clipeus

At first the Romans used the large round shield called the clipeus, afterwards, when the soldiers received pay, the smaller oblong shield called the scutum was adopted.

The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

Some square blocks of lead, that were the yotting of bars of metal, rather favour this idea, and suggest that these metal bars were a portion of the machinery by which a brazen shield (_clipeus_) was suspended, or secured, so that by raising or lowering it the temperature of the hall might be regulated as described by Vitruvius.

The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath Charles E. Davis

Epamīnōndās quaesīvit num salvus esset clipeus, or salvusne esset clipeus, _Epaminondas asked whether his shield was safe_; disputātur num interīre virtūs in homine possit, _the question is raised whether virtue can die in a man_; ex Sōcrate quaesītum est nōnne Archelāum beātum putāret, _the question was asked of Socrates whether he did not think Archelaus happy_.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

_ -- The legion of Servius is so closely connected with the Comitia Centuriata that it has already been discussed, [49] and it is only necessary to state here that it was a phalanx equipped in the Greek fashion, the front ranks being furnished with a complete suit of armor, their weapons being long spears, and their chief defense the round Argolic shield (_clipeus_).

A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

Less common variations show the newly incarnate Savior imprinted on His mother's mantle, tucked into its folds, or suspended without the clipeus, somewhat like the floating fetal images of Western Europe.

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