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FIRST LATIN READER

153

SCUTA

This

illustration,

taken from the carvings on the column of

Trajan (see page 40) shows ,

how Roman

soldiers,

by locking

their

shields (scuta), formed a solid roof over their heads as they came up under a wall from which the enemy were sending down a

shower of

missiles.