Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cristatus

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. 

CRISTA'TUS. Applied to helmets, distinguishes those which were fitted with a crest (crista) from the mere scull-cap (cudo), which had neither ridge-piece nor crest. (Liv. ix. 40. Ovid. Met. viii. 25.) Compare the preceding wood-cuts with the illustration to CUDO.