Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Palaria

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. 

PALA'RIA. Neuter plural. The exercise of tilting, practised by recruits of the Roman armies, against a stake (palus) set up in the ground as a manikin, by which they learnt to go through their exercise. Charis. i. 21. Compare Veg. Mil. i. 11. Id. ii. 23.