Latin TRIPLICA ?

[Anonymous]

Hi there need some help with a definition. the latin TRIPLICA ( TRI - three , PLICA - rolled, folded ?????)<br>
would this mean three layers or mabye eight, depending on the way you read it!<br>
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If your wondering it comes from the Aeneid and its talking about the covering of a sheild.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Jason <p></p><i></i>

[Flavius]

Salve,<br>
the term "triplica" in Latin (and in Italian too ) simply means: "to do something three times", as "duplica" means "two times" and so on...<br>
Maybe is it relating to the layers of a shield (the mythical republican scutum)?<br>
Vale. <p>---------<br>
Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam;<br>
profuit iniustis te dominante capi;<br>
dumque offers victis proprii consortia iuris,<br>
Urbem fecisti, quod prius orbis erat.<br>
(Rutilius Namatianus - De Reditu Suo, I, 63-66) </p><i></i>