laquearian

See also: laquearían

English

Adjective

laquearian (not comparable)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (of a gladiator) armed with a noose
   • 1857, George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, volume 1, page 303:

     Whether the wonderful statue which suggested this image be a laquearian gladiator, which, in spite of Winkelmann's criticism, has been stoutly maintained; or whether it be a Greek herald, as that great antiquary positively asserted;* or whether it is to be thought a Spartan or barbarian […]

   • 1845, William Gilmore Simms, Views and Reviews in American Literature: History and Fiction, page 28:

     One claims it as a Grecian Herald, another will have it a Laquearian Gladiator, while a third makes it a barbarian shield-bearer from Sparta. A host of other gray beards discover a host of other similitudes.

Translations

armed with a noose

• Latin: laqueatus