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Labarum
The standard borne before the Roman emperors. It consisted of a
gilded spear, with an eagle on the top, while from a cross staff hung a
splendid purple streamer, with a gold fringe, adorned with precious
stones. Constantine substituted a crown for the eagle, and inscribed in
the midst the mysterious monogram.
(See Constantines Cross.) Rich (Antiquities, p. 361)
says “probably from the Gaulish lab, to raise; for Constantine
was educated in Gaul.” The Greek laba is a staff. (See Gibbon: Decline and Fall, etc. chap. xx.)
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