Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Phalerae

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. 

PHAL'ERAE (τὰ φάλαρα). Bosses of gold, silver, or other metals, cast or chased with some appropriate device in relief; such, for instance, as the head of a god, image of a king or emperor, or other allusive design, and frequently having additional pendants, in the form of drops and crescents attached to them; which were worn as ornaments upon the breast by persons of distinction, by soldiers as a military decoration, presented by the commander for brilliant services, and as an ornamental trapping for horses. (Liv. ix. 46. Sil. Ital. xv. 255. Virg. Aen. ix. 359. Id. v. 310. Claud. iv. Cons. Honor. 549.) The illustration (Phalerae/1.1) represents a collar formed of phalerae, with pendants attached to each alternate boss, from an original preserved in the Museum of Antiquities at Vienna, and the manner of wearing them is explained and illustrated by the two following examples (see article PHALERATUS).

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  Phalerae/1.1