. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. Vitruv. x. 3. 7. Inscript. ap. Fa-bretti, p. 10. 2. Soldiers formed into a Alex. Sev. 50. PHALANGFTES (<pa\ayy(rVs).A soldier armed and equipped in thesame manner as those of the Macedo-nian phalanx. Liv. xxxvii. 40. xlii. 51. PH AL/ERiE (Ta <f)d\apa). Bosses3 s 498 PHALERATUS. PHARETRA
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. Vitruv. x. 3. 7. Inscript. ap. Fa-bretti, p. 10. 2. Soldiers formed into a Alex. Sev. 50. PHALANGFTES (<pa\ayy(rVs).A soldier armed and equipped in thesame manner as those of the Macedo-nian phalanx. Liv. xxxvii. 40. xlii. 51. PH AL/ERiE (Ta <f)d\apa). Bosses3 s 498 PHALERATUS. PHARETRATUS. of gold, silver, or other metals, castor chased with some appropriate de-vice in relief; such, for instance, asthe head of a god, image of a king oremperor, or other allusive design,. and frequently having additionalpendants, in the form of drops andcrescents attached to them; whichwere worn as ornaments upon thebreast by persons of distinction, bysoldiers as a military decoration, pre-sented by the commander for bril-liant services, and as an ornamentaltrapping for horses. (Liv. ix. 46. xv. 255. Virg. JEn. ix. 359. 310. Claud, iv. Cons, Honor. 549.)The illustration represents a collarformed of phalerce, with pendants at-tached to each alternate boss, from anoriginal preserved in the Museum ofAntiquities at Vienna, and the mannerof wearing them is explained and illus-trated by the two following examples. PHALERATUS. Wearingbosses (phalerce) of the precious me-tals, as a decoration to the person ; apractice originally characteristic offoreign nations (Suet. Nero, 30.),but adopted from Etruria by the Ro-mans (Florus, i. 5, 6.), amongst whomthey were chiefly employed as a mili-tary decoration for distinguished ser-vices, and worn in front of the chest(
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