Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Flammula

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. 

FLAM'MULA. A banner used in late times by some of the cavalry regiments of the Roman armies (Veget. Mil. ii. 1. Id. iii. 5.); which may have received the name from being of a yellow colour, like the bridal veil (flammeum); or from being notched at the end into long pointed forks, like a flame (flamma), a specimen of which is exhibited in the annexed wood-cut (Flammula/1.1) from the arch of Septimius Severus.

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  Flammula/1.1