Subarmalis in the literary sources

[Renatus]

How about armilla?

armillae, quae bracchialia vocantur? :wink:

Edit: Explanation probably required. This is Priscian's gloss on armillae, from his treatise On the Twelve Main Verses of the Aeneid, where he wrestles with the word arma (as in, "Of arms and the man, I sing, ...") and its derivatives. Needless to say, he derives armilla from arma.

Festus, however, more logically derives it from armus, "quod antiqui humeros cum brachiis armos vocabant."

Here's Tab. Vindol. 184, Leaf 3, Line 8:
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Looks like subarmalo to me!

But in the Corrigenda the reading is amended to 'subarmal'.

EDIT I note that, in the translation, no attempt is made to translate subarmalo and no interpretation is offered in the Notes, other than to say that it does not seem to be a commodity.