Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tropaeum

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. 

TROPAE'UM (τρόπαιον). A trophy; a monument erected on the spot where a victory had been obtained; or, in the case of naval warfare, upon the nearest point of land to where the action had taken place. It was originally formed with the trunk of a tree, upon which and its branches some arms belonging to the defeated party were suspended, as in the illustration (Tropaeum/1.1), from an Imperial coin; but latterly trophies were designed as elaborate works of art, in marble or bronze, and erected apart from the battle-field, as permanent mementoes of the contest. Cic. Inv. ii. 23. Virg. Aen. xi. 5 — 11. Suet. Cal. 45. Claud. 1.

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