parma: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>parma</b>: (or in the collat. form pal-ma, Tib. 1, 9, 82; and so [[many]] MSS. in Prop. 2, 19, 44 (3, 20, 8); 4 (5), 10, 40; Liv. 22, 1, 9), ae (old<br /><b>I</b> gen. parmaï, Lucr. 4, 847), f., = [[πάρμη]]>, a [[small]], [[round]] [[shield]], a [[target]], carried by the [[light]] [[infantry]] and the [[cavalry]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: configunt parmam, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 432 Vahl.); Varr. ap. Non. 552, 30: desiliunt ex equis, provolant in [[primum]] [[agmen]] et pro antesignanis parmas obiciunt, Liv. 2, 20; 2, 6, 9; 31, 35 fin.: hic [[miles]] ([[veles]]) tripedalem parmam habet, id. 38, 21 fin.; 26, 4; Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 554, 23: picta fulgebat, Prop. 4, 10, 21.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., a [[shield]] ([[poet]].): ([[Pallas]]) parmamque ferens hastamque trementem, Verg. A. 2, 175; 11, 693; Mart. 9, 21, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[gladiator]] [[armed]] [[with]] a [[parma]], a [[Threx]] (v. [[Threx]]) ([[poet]].), Mart. 9, 69, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> The valve in a [[pair]] of [[bellows]], Aus. Idyll. 10, 267.