Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutarius

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. 

SCUTA'RIUS. One who makes shields (scuta). Plaut. Epid. i. 1. 35.

2. Scutarii. The title given to a class of foreign troops introduced by Constantine; probably as a bodyguard. Ammian. xx. 4.

References

edit