Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Loricatus

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. 

LORICA'TUS (τεθωρακισμένος). Armed with a cuirass, corselet, or coat of mail, as described in the various paragraphs of the last article, and shown by the woodcuts, pp. 144. 159. 178. 330., and many others in the course of these pages.

2. Loricatus eques. (Liv. xxiii. 19.) Same as CATAPHRACTUS.

3. Loricatus elephas (Hirt. B. Afr. 72.) An elephant equipped for battle, by having a breast-work, or tower for armed men upon his back, like the annexed example (Loricatus/3.1), from an engraved gem. It is obvious that the almost impenetrable hide of this animal would not require the assistance of armour, like the horse; and Polybius (Fr. Hist. 22.) uses the diminutive θωράκιον (loricula) for the breast-work of a tower on an elephant's back.

4. Coated with cement. Varro, R. R. i. 57. 1.

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