tropaeum

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

tropaeum ī, n

, τρόπαιον, a memorial of victory, trophy (orig. a tree hung with spoils): tropaeum statuere: quercum Constituit . . . tibi, tropaeum, V.—A victory: nova tropaea Caesaris, H.: tulit e capto nota tropaea viro, O.: Marathonium, N.: nostra sunt tropaea, nostri triumphi.—A mark, token, sign, memorial, monument: necessitudinis atque hospiti.

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