Shields
“blazoned devices”
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blazon · shield · shield device · shields
in the texts
On the Crown
Military equipment donated by honored commanders.
When Diotimus, and on another occasion Charidemus, had made a present of shields, they were crowned.
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 …
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.
Adrastus was at the seventh gate;
this device his shield bore upon its iron back:
Next lord Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian gates with this device in the middle of his shield: