Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Niceterium

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. 

NICETE'RIUM (νικητήριον). A prize of victory, or reward of valour, like the phalarae or torquis, which the recipient wore on his breast or neck (Juv. iii. 68.), as we do crosses and ribands; but the word is properly Greek, and has reference more particularly to the customs of that nation.