Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vexillarius

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. 

VEXILLA'RIUS. The soldier who carried the vexillum, or colours of his regiment (Liv. viii. 8. Tac. Hist. 1. 41.); more especially, though not exclusively descriptive of the cavalry troops, who used no other ensign. The illustration (Vexillarius/1.1) is copied from the Column of Antoninus.

2. Under the Empire, the name of Vexillarii was given to a distinct body of soldiers, supposed to have been composed of veterans, who were released from the military oath and regular service, but kept embodied under a separate flag (vexillum), to render assistance to the army if required, guard the frontiers, and garrison recently-conquered provinces; a certain number of these supernumeraries being attached to each legion. Tac. Hist. ii. 83. Ib. 100. Compare Ann. i. 36.

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