manipulus

The name manipulus was given because it was folded together and carried in the left hand like a small bundle (manipulus).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Ecce enim ligabamus manipulos in medio agri: et ecce surrexit manipulus meus, ac etiam stabat: et ecce circumdabant manipuli vestri, et incurvabant se manipulo meo.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

(Siloam) and Urtas; then turning a corner saw Jifna at some distance, in the midst of a plain enclosed by hills; and there it must have been that the manipulus with S.P.Q.R. was posted in front of Italian tents, and the soldiers bustling about or jesting in Latin or British language, before their retiring to rest, in the spring season of the year A.D.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

The pallialinostima spoken of in the lives of Popes Sylvester and Zosimus, which appeared at this date in the "Liber Pontificalis", can be explained with most probability as references to the ornamental vestment called later mappula and manipulus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

In earlier ages the maniple was called by various names: mappula, sudarium, mantile, fano, manuale, sestace, and manipulus, appellations which indicate to some extent its original purpose.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The Greeks derived the word from drássomai, "to grip", "to take a handful"; cf. drágma, manipulus, "a handful".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

It appears from this passage, and from other authors, that to every troop of one hundred men a “manipulus” or wisp of hay (so called from “manum implere,” to “fill the hand,” as being “a handful”), was assigned as a standard, and hence in time the company itself obtained the name of “manipulus,” and the soldier, a member of it, was called “manipularis.”

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847

A cohort was formed by taking a manipulus from each of the battalions; more frequently two manipuli were taken, and the cohort then contained six hundred men.

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Prasfeftus ta - men & odo centuriones, ac proipptiflSimus quifque manipulus cecidere: nec multo poft pabulantes nof - 'tros, miffafque ad fubfidium turmas profiigant.

C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia. ... 1790

Stola efc manipulus ejusdem paimi et breudurae; Apostoli cum albis faciebus.

Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770