Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Peltata

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. 

PELTA'TA. In a general sense, any female who bears the small light shield called pelta; but more especially used to designate a female warrior of Amazonian race, to whom it is universally attributed by poets and artists as the national arm of defence. Ov. Her. xxi. 117. Am. ii. 14. 2. Mart. ix. 102. Compare Stat. Theb. xii. 761., where peltifera is used in the same sense. The illustration (Peltata/1.1) represents two Amazons, from a marble bas-relief; the one on the left hand, with a lunated pelta of the most usual form, the other of a cylindrical figure, which is of much rarer occurrence.

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