Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Primipilaris

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. 

PRIMIPILA'RIS. The title retained as an honorary distinction by an officer who had enjoyed the rank of chief centurion of the first maniple of the triarii, after he had received his discharge. Quint. vi. 3. 92. Suet. Cal. 35. and 38.