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galbĕum

galbĕum · n

a kind of armband

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What it meant

galbĕum — Lewis & Short

galbĕum, i, n., or galbĕus (anciently calbĕus), i, m.† galbus,

I a kind of armband, fillet (worn as an ornament, or for medical purposes): † galbeum ornamenti genus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 96 Müll.: † calbeos armillas dicebant, quibus triumphantes utebantur, et quibus ob virtutes milites donabantur, id. p. 46; Cato ap. Fest. s. v. ruscum, p. 265, a Müll.: alii (cognomen Galbae inde trahunt), quod in diuturna valetudine galbeo, id est remediis lana involutis assidue uteretur, Suet. Galb. 3.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.