Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutarius
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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.
SCUTA'RIUS. One who makes shields (scuta). Plaut. Epid. i. 1. 35.
2. Scutarii. The title given to a class of foreign troops introduced by Constantine; probably as a bodyguard. Ammian. xx. 4.