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ARGENTATI MILITES

Volume 2 · 42 words · 1797 Edition

in Antiquity. Livy, lib. vi. speaks of argentati milites, as distinguished from aurati. Aquinas supposes these to have been similar to the argyraspides and chrysalpides; but the descriptions do not quadrature. Livy only represents the argentati as cloathed in white linen coats.