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the gold ring

gold rings

also: anulus aureus

The gold finger-ring worn as the badge of a Roman of equestrian (knightly) rank; Mago poured out heaps of them stripped from the Roman dead at Cannae to measure the slaughter.

Reading notes

Mentioned in 1 work (2 mentions)

The History of Rome, Book 9 hist · 2 mentions

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