Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cinctorium

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CINCTO'RIUM. A belt worn round the waist, for the purpose of attaching the sword (Mela, ii. 1.), as contradistinguished from the baldrick (balteus), which was slung over the shoulder. The consuls, tribunes, and superior officers of the Roman army are always represented on the columns and arches with their swords attached by a cinctorium, as in the example (Cinctorium/1.1), from a bas-relief in the Capitol at Rome; but the orderlies, or common men, carry theirs suspended from a balteus.

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  Cinctorium/1.1