Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Parmatus

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. 

PARMA'TUS. Armed with the shield termed parma; more especially characteristic of the Roman cavalry and light-armed troops. (Liv. iv. 38.) The annexed example (Parmatus/1.1), from a bas-relief in terra-cotta, compared with the illustration s. CLIPEATUS, will afford a notion of the difference in comparative size and character between the Roman parma and the Greek clipeus, and of the different appearance presented by the men who bore them respectively.

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