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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Phalangarii

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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. 

PHALANGA'RII or PALANGA'RII. Porters who carried things of bulk or great weight with the assistance of a strong pole (phalanga). Four, sex, and even eight men by this means combined their strength for the transport of a single object, as shown by the annexed example (Phalangarii/1.1), from a terra-cotta lamp, representing eight porters bearing a cask of wine, suspended in the manner described. Vitruv. x. 3. 7. Inscript. ap. Fabretti, p. 10.

2. Soldiers formed into a phalanx. Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 50.

  • Phalangarii/1.1
    Phalangarii/1.1

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