Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gr. archaeology, a dagger worn at the girdle.
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Examples
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Nevertheless, this connoisseur pretended to distinguish a face in profile, from which he concluded that the piece was of the Upper Empire, and on the reverse he endeavoured to point out the bulb of the spear, and part of the parazonium, which were the insignia of the Roman Virtus, together with the fragment of one fold of the multicium in which she was clothed.
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The other is represented by the right and left hand of a 1.60 to 1.70 m tall statue holding a parazonium, a short sword used in parades, together with a staff-like attribute.
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The hand of an emperor clasping a parazonium (parade sword)
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S. parazonium, stat inter duos fluvios humi jacentes, et ab accedente retro Victoria coronatur.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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S. parazonium, stat inter duos fluvios humi jacentes, et ab accedente retro Victoria coronatur.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Figura muliebris Romam defignans, lpoliis inGdct, d. ha - ftam tenei. s, f. parazonium; pofl: illam ftat Vidoria, d. eandein co - sonans, f. pahnam tcncns.
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Besides, this medal has the true Corinthian ring; then the attitude is upright, whereas that of Britannia is reclining; and how is it possible to mistake a branch of palm for a parazonium?”
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Martis (Tgnam» qtiod d.h. i (lam te - net, f. parazonium.
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