Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Clipeatus

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

CLIPEA'TUS (ἀσπιδηφόρος). Armed or furnished with the large round Grecian shield (clipeus), as shown by the example (Clipeatus/1.1) from a Greek fictile vase. Virg. Aen. vii. 793. Ovid. Met. iii. 110. Curt. vii. 9.

2. Clipeatus chlamyde. Having the left arm covered with the chlamys instead of a shield (Pacuv. ap. Non. s. v. Clypeat. p. 87.), as represented by the annexed figure (Clipeatus/2.1), from a fictile vase; in which manner Alcibiades is stated by Plutarch to have tried to protect himself in the combat when he lost his life.

3. Clipeata imago. A portrait engraved or painted upon a clipeus. (Cic. ap. Macrob. Sat. ii. 3.) See CLIPEUS, 3.

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  Clipeatus/1.1
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  Clipeatus/2.1