Shields
“blazoned devices”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
blazon · shield · shield device · shields
in the texts
On the Crown
Military equipment donated by honored commanders.
that, whereas Charidemus, dispatched to Salamis in command of the infantry, and Diotimus, commanding the cavalry, when in the battle at the river some of the soldiers had been disarmed by the enemy, did at their own expense arm the younger men with eight hundred shields, it be resolved by the Council and People to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with a golden crown, and to proclaim it at the great P …
When Diotimus, and on another occasion Charidemus, had made a present of shields, they were crowned.
Phoenissae
The elaborately decorated shields borne by each of the seven Argive champions, each bearing a symbolic device foreshadowing the bearer's fate or purpose.
But both kept such careful outlook through the spy-holes in their shields, that their weapons found nothing to do;
First to the Neitian gate, Parthenopaeus, son of the huntress, led a company bristling with thick rows of shields, and he had his own device in the centre of his shield:
Next lord Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian gates with this device in the middle of his shield: