CXXXIX.

The Soldier. Miles.

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If we be to make War _Soldiers_ are lifted, 1. Si bellandum est scribuntur _Milites_. 1.

Their _Arms_ are a _Head-piece_, 2. (which is adorned with a _Crest_) and the _Armour_, Horum _Arma_ sunt, _Galea_ (Cassis, 2.) (quæ ornatur _Cristâ_) & _Armatura_, whose parts are a _Collar_, 3. a _Breast-plate_, 4. _Arm-pieces_, 5. _Leg-pieces_, 6. _Greaves_, 7. cujus partes _Torquis ferreus_, 3. _Thorax_, 4. _Brachialia_, 5. _Ocreæ ferreæ_, 6. _Manicæ_, 7. with a _Coat of Mail_, 8. and a _Buckler_, 9. these are the defensive Arms. cum _Lorica_, 8. & _Scuto_ (Clypeo), 9. hæc sunt Arma defensiva.

The offensive are a _Sword_, 10. a _two-edged Sword_, 11. a _Falchion_, 12. Offensiva sunt _Gladius_, 10. _Framea_, 11. & _Acinaces_, 12. which are put up into a _Scabbard_, 13. and are girded with a _Girdle_, 14. or _Belt_, 15. qui reconduntur _Vaginâ_, 13. accinguntur _Cingulo_, 14. vel _Baltheo_, 15. (a _Scarf_, 16. serveth for ornament) a _two handed-Sword_, 17. and a _Dagger_, 18. (_Fascia militaris_, 16. inservit ornatui) _Romphæa_, 17. & _Pugio_, 18.

In these is the _Haft_, 19. with the _Pummel_, 20. and the _Blade_, 21. having a _Point_, 22. In his est _Manubrium_, 19. cum _Pomo_, 20. & _Verutum_, 21. _Cuspidatum_, 22. in the middle are the _Back_, 23. and the _Edge_, 24. in medio _Dorsum_, 23. & _Acies_, 24.

The other Weapons are a _Pike_, 25. a _Halbert_, 26. Reliqua arma sunt _Hasta_, 25. _Bipennis_, 26. (in which is the _Haft_, 27. and the _Head_, 28.) a _Club_, 29. and a _Whirlebat_, 30. (in quibus _Hastile_, 27. & _Mucro_, 28.) _Clava_, 29. & _Cœstus_, 30.

They fight at a distance with _Muskets_, 31. and _Pistols_, 32. which Pugnatur eminùs _Bombardis_ (Sclopetis), 31. & _Sclopis_, 32. quæ are charged with _Bullets_, 33. out of a _Bullet-bag_, 34. and with _Gun-powder_ out of a _Bandalier_, 35. onerantur _Globis_, 33. è _Theca bombardica_, 34. & _Pulvere nitrato_ è _Pyxide pulveraria_, 35.