clipeus การใช้

• All troops except archers adopted the auxiliary oval ( or sometimes round ) shield ( " clipeus " ).
• Above the priests, within the church, is a triumphal arch with two angels; they hold a clipeus with the " Blessing Christ ".
• In addition, it appears that auxiliaries carried a flat elliptical shield ( " clipeus " ) instead of the curved rectangular shield ( " scutum " ) of legionaries.
• Pliny also describes the custom of having a bust-portrait of an ancestor painted on a round bronze shield ( " clipeus " ), and having it hung in a temple or other public place.
• The Forum of Augustus was built to celebrate Augustus's victory over Mars Ultor the Avenger and was adorned with statues; on the attic of the porticos ran a decoration of female figures ( Caryatids ) and clipeus.
• "Clipeus virtutis ", Latin for'shield of bravery'was awarded to Augustus for his " courage, clemency, justice and piety " by the senate and displayed in the Curia Iulia . ( Res Gestae 34)
• From the wealthiest classes were recruited the heavy-armed infantry, equipped like the Greek hoplite warrior with helmet, round shield ( clipeus ), greaves and breastplate, all of bronze, and carrying a spear ( " hasta " ) and sword ( not the gladius ).
• The first and wealthiest common class was armed in the fashion of the hoplite with spear, sword, helmet, breast plate and round shield ( called " clipeus " in Latin, similar to the Greek " aspis ", also called " hoplon " ); there were 82 centuries of these of which two were trumpeters.