caetras
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caetra, caetrae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
- Geography:
- Spain/Iberia
caetra (small light shield); (Spanish); elephant's hide;
acc. pl.
Examples
- G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...primo die phalerato equo insignisque quercea corona et caetra et gladio aureaque chlamyde, postridie quadrigario habitu curriculoque biiugi..." - P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...haec lento mos est aptare flagello. laevas caetra tegit, falcati comminus enses. Nec tu carminibus nostris indictus abibis..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quendam ex regiis ducibus cum mille peltatis—pelta caetrae haud dissimilis est—Chalcidem mittit; additi quingenti Agrianum..."