Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cataphracta

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. 

CATAPHRAC'TA (καταφράκτης). A term employed by Vegetius to designate generally any kind of breast-plate worn by the Roman infantry from the earliest period until the reign of the Emperor Gratianus. Veget. Mil. i. 20.