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After such words of exhortation, Belisarius sent out all the horsemen on the same day, except five hundred, and also the guardsmen and the standard, which the Romans call "bandum," [1] entrusting them to John the

History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius

Others refer it to the medieval Latin _bandum_, banner, a strip or "band" of cloth fastened to a pole.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Aat ergo pro* bandum, HerOdoti Cidram dictam qao - qae Cidraennamy aat di£ferendam jadi -. ciam, qborsam namas revera pertineat»

Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792

MARCO POLO describes the scene as something within his own knowledge: -- "Quando autem magnus Kaan scivit quod isti ambaxiatores redibant cum reliquis istis, et erant prope terram ubi ipse tune erat, scilicet in Cambalu (Pekin), fecit mitti bandum quod omnes de terra obviarent reliquis istis (quia credebat quod essent reliquiæ de

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836