laurĕātus, a, um, adj. [laurea],
crowned or decked with laurel, laureate : imago, Cic. Mur. 41, 88: lictores, id. Att. 7, 10, 1: fasces, id. Div. 1, 28, 59: legiones, Liv. 45, 39: litterae, a letter announcing a victory (so called because bound up with bay-leaves), a laurelled letter , id. 45, 1: litterae a Postumio laureatae sequuntur, id. 5, 28 fin. : tabellae, id. 45, 1.—Subst.: laurĕātae , ārum (sc. litterae), a letter announcing a victory : ne laureatis quidem gesta prosecutus est, Tac. Agr. 18 fin. ; cf. laurus.