Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Parmularius

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. 

PARMULA'RIUS. A gladiator, of the class called Thracians (Thraces); and so designated because he was armed with the Thracian parma, as explained and illustrated s. PARMA, 2. Suet. Dom. 40.