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vexilla

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vex·il·la  (vk-sl)
n.
Plural of vexillum.


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A 1947 watercolor, Vexilla Regis, for example, is crowded with a checklist of Roman and Christian symbols and does not quite work to convey any living symbolic heritage.
Juvenal's Otho seems a good military commander: he gives orders to his troops, arms himself in a mighty armor, and courageously rides into battle--but not before making sure that his armor looks impeccable (ille tenet speculum, pathici gestamen Othonis, / Actoris Aurunci spolium, quo ille se videbat / armatum, cum iam tolli vexilla iuberet; 2,99-101).
37) Grassaille: "Supra vexilla invictissimi Regis Franciae, nemo praesumat honorem: sua enim umbra, totum orbem regit .
 
 
 
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