Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Impediti

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. 

IMPEDI'TI. In military phraseology soldiers who marched with a heavy load of arms, provisions, and personal baggage (sarcina), as was the ordinary practice in the Roman armies (Caes. B. G. i. 12.), and shown by the annexed example (Impediti/1.1) from the column of Trajan. The soldier wears his heavy armour; his shield on the left arm, and helmet slung in front, from the right shoulder, while his personal necessaries, implements for cooking, and vessels for eating and drinking are made into a pack and carried on the top of a pole. The men thus loaded are opposed to EXPEDITI; which compare.

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  Impediti/1.1