05-08-2002, 05:11 PM
Salve,<br>
<br>
The origin may ly in the Greek term of <i> pterophoros</i> ('feather bearer' or 'wing bearer') used for messengers such as in Plutarch, <i> Life of Otho</i> 4.2. Rankov interpets this as a recognition mark attached to a spear (plate G1 in Osrey Elite 50 <i> The praetorian guard</i>). As with the <i> corniculum</i> it is not made explicitly clear where such an ornament, if actually worn (it may ofcourse have been so at some earlier point, but discontinued), would have been attached.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Sander van Dorst <p></p><i></i>
<br>
The origin may ly in the Greek term of <i> pterophoros</i> ('feather bearer' or 'wing bearer') used for messengers such as in Plutarch, <i> Life of Otho</i> 4.2. Rankov interpets this as a recognition mark attached to a spear (plate G1 in Osrey Elite 50 <i> The praetorian guard</i>). As with the <i> corniculum</i> it is not made explicitly clear where such an ornament, if actually worn (it may ofcourse have been so at some earlier point, but discontinued), would have been attached.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Sander van Dorst <p></p><i></i>
