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|lshtext=<b>armātūra</b>: ae, f. [[armo]],<br /><b>I</b> armor, [[equipment]].<br /> Lit.: [[armatura]] [[varia]] peditatūs et equitatūs, Cic. Fam. 7, 1: cohortes nostrā armaturā, id. Att. 6, 1: Numidae [[levis]] armaturae, of [[light]] armor, Caes. B. G. 2, 10: universi generis [[armatura]], Vulg. 2 Par. 32, 5; ib. Ezech. 26, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]. (abstr. pro concr.), [[armed]] soldiers; and in [[class]]. lang. [[always]] [[with]] the adj. [[levis]], = [[velites]], [[light]]-[[armed]] soldiers (opp. [[gravis]] [[armatus]]). Veg. [[first]] used [[armatura]] absol. for [[young]] [[troops]]: nostrae sunt legiones, nostra [[levis]] [[armatura]], Cic. Phil. 10, 6 fin.: equites, pedites, [[levis]] [[armatura]], id. Brut. 37, 139: adsequi cum levi armaturā, Liv. 27, 48; cf. id. 28, 14; Flor. 4, 2, 49: equitum [[triginta]], [[levis]] armaturae [[centum]] milia, Suet. Caes. 66; Liv. 21, 55; 22, 18: manipuli [[levis]] armaturae, id. 27, 13: [[levis]] armaturae juvenes, id. 44, 2 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of [[discourse]]: haec fuerit nobis, [[tamquam]] [[levis]] armaturae, prima orationis [[excursio]]; [[nunc]] [[comminus]] [[agamus]], Cic. Div. 2, 10, 26. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[kind]] of [[exercise]] in [[arms]], Amm. 14, 11; Veg. 1, 13; 2, 23.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In a [[religious]] [[sense]] (eccl. Lat.): induite armaturam Dei, the armor of God, Vulg. Ephes. 6, 11; 6, 13. >