lance-bearer

Updated: May 5, 2025

This is implied in their very name. I. II. Primitive Races of Italy 9. -Quiris-, -quiritis-, or -quirinus- is interpreted by the ancients as "lance-bearer," from -quiris- or -curis- = lance and -ire-, and so far in their view agrees with -samnis-, -samnitis- and -sabinus-, which also among the ancients was derived from saunion , spear.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Red chalk he used for some of his most brilliant conceptions. It is not necessary to dwell upon the bending woman's head at Oxford, or the torso of the lance-bearer at Vienna. Let us confine our attention to what is perhaps the most pleasing and most perfect of all Michelangelo's designs the "Bersaglio," or the "Arcieri," in the Queen's collection at Windsor.

John Addington Symonds - The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

This is implied in their very name. I. II. Primitive Races of Italy 9. -Quiris-, -quiritis-, or -quirinus- is interpreted by the ancients as "lance-bearer," from -quiris- or -curis- = lance and -ire-, and so far in their view agrees with -samnis-, -samnitis- and -sabinus-, which also among the ancients was derived from saunion , spear.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

Here we leave Columbus and his companions to play the important rôles in the conquest of America assigned to each of them. The fortunes of the yeoman of humble birth, the former lance-bearer or stirrup-page of the knight commander of Calatráva, already referred to, were destined to become intimately connected with those of the island whose history we will now trace.

R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk - The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation