Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Frontale

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. 

FRONTA'LE (ἄμπυξ). A frontlet, or head-band, placed across the foreheads of horses (Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 74.), as seen in the annexed example (Frontale/1.1), from a fictile vase. It sometimes consisted of a plate of gold (Hom. Il. v. 358.), and, amongst persons of regal state, was often enriched with precious stones. Plin. l. c.

2. The Greek writers also make use of the same word to designate a bandeau placed in a similar manner over the forehead of females, more especially of Divinities (Hom. Il. xxii. 469. Hes. Theogn. 916.); as shown in the annexed woodcut (Frontale/2.1), from a fictile vase.

3. (προμετωπίδιον. Gloss. Vet.) A plate of metal, placed as a defence over the forehead and frontal bone of horses belonging to the heavy cavalry of the Greeks and Romans. (Arrian. Tact. p. 15. Xen. Cyr. iv. 1. Id. Anab. i. 7.) This practice was introduced by the Medes or Persians; and elephants, when caparisoned for action, were provided with a defence of the same nature. Liv. xxxvii. 40.

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