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- Aphrodite Boxing gloves used by ancient Gr****s and Romans, also written Caestus A girdle or belt worn by women in ancient Greece A marriage girdle, given...
- depictions show the cestus worn in pairs. Latin Caestus or cestus translates as "striker". Its plural is caestus. More rarely, plural cesti is used; this translates...
- Vasum caestus, common name the helmet vase, is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This marine...
- Entelus responds to the challenge of the boxer Dares by throwing his caestus (boxing glove, or gauntlet) into the boxing ring. To "throw down the gauntlet"...
- Africa (3rd century AD) Pugilists (possibly pankratists) wearing spiky caestūs, mosaic from Roman Trier (early to mid 4th century AD) The form of boxing...
- Combative Sport. Retrieved 23 November 2015. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caestus" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Alberge...
- with copper, and further copper inlays on the right shoulder, forearm, caestus and thigh represented drops and trickles of blood. The fingers and toes...
- (Indian) Br**** knuckles, knuckle dusters (European) Cestus, bladed cestus, caestus, myrmex, sfere (Mediterranean) Deer Horn Knives (Chinese) Emeici (Chinese)...
- University Press. Retrieved 14 July 2017. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caestus" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. "Horse...
- male nudes during his years in Rome, including The S****er (1883) and Caestus (1883-1885). He returned to New York City in 1885, and opened a studio...