Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Imaginarii

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

IMAGINA'RII. Standard bearers in the Roman Imperial armies, whose ensigns had an image of the emperor amongst the other devices (Veget. Mil. ii. 7.), as seen in the annexed woodcut (Imaginarii/1.1), from the Column of Trajan, in which the emperor's portrait occupies the top place, surrounded by a wreath of laurel.

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