CHRYSOASPIDES et Argyraspides

CHRYSOASPIDES et Argyraspides
CHRYSOASPIDES et Argyraspides
dicti sunt milites, als armis aurô vel argentô obductis, quo maior pompa ac apparatus elset. Vide Iustin. l. 12. c. 7. Ael. Lamprid. in Severo, c. 30. etc. P. Orosius, l. 3. c. 23. Ultimô consiliô, inquit, Argyraspidas, ob arma deargentata sic dictos, h. e. milites qui sub Alexandro mditaaverant, in auxilius rogat. Macrob. Saturn. l. 2. c. 2. ostentabat Antiochus in campo ingentes copias, convertebatque exercitum insignibus aureis et argenteis florentem. Hinc Ovid. de Ponto, l. 3. Ep. 4. v. 103.
Scuta, sed et galeae gemmis radientur et aurô. etc.
Vide Thom. Dempster. in Ioh. Rosini Antiqq. Rom. l. 10.Paralip. ad c. 10. Berneggerum ad Iustinum, l. 12. c. 7. Casaubon. ad Lamprid. d. l. etc.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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