Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lunatus

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. 

LUNA'TUS. Ornamented with the senatorial luna; of the shoe (Mart. i. 50. pellis); of the foot (Id. ii. 29. 31. planta), as shown by the preceding illustration.

2. Shaped like a half-moon; of the Amazonian shield, which is hollowed into the form of a crescent (Virg. Aen. i. 490. and illustration s. PELTA); hence agmen lunatum (Stat. Theb. v. 145.), a body armed with such shields.