Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sarcina

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. 

SAR'CINA. A pack or bundle of things collected together and made up into a lump for the convenience of carriage by men, beasts of burden, or in vehicles (Pet. Sat. 117. 11. Phaedr. ii. 7. Hirt. B. Afr. 75.), as contradistinguished from fascis, a bundle tied up into a faggot. The example (Sarcina/1.1) is from the column of Trajan, and shows the way in which the ancient packs are uniformly represented when tied up.

2. The personal baggage belonging to, and carried by, a Roman on the march; viz. his arms, clothes, rations for a certain number of days, and the utensils for cooking them; as contradistinguished from impedimenta, the baggage of the entire army. Caes. B. G. i. 24. Id. B. C. iii. 76. Hirt. B. Afr. 75. The illustration (Sarcina/2.1) represents a Roman soldier, with his baggage as described, on the column of Trajan.

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