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From this section on Trajan's column it seems like cornicens carried parmas, but I don't see parmas anywhere else on Trajan's column. Does anyone know of a picture from elsewhere on the column, or anywhere else that shows a cornicen carrying a parma?
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L. Cornelius Scaeva (Jim Miller)
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Various other standard bearers can be seen carrying this shield. Have you been able to see all the scenes of the column? There have been a number of posts here talking about the best books to check out.
P.S. What's the latin plural of "parma," anyway? "Parmae"?
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If parma is the regular nominative singluar feminine, then parmae should be the plural.
John Baker
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- Institutes, bk. I, ch. I, para. I
