I.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.
laurĕātus , a, um, adj. laurea,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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