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Corniculary

A corniculary or cornicular was an officer of the Roman legions who served as the adjutant to a centurion, so named for wearing a "cornicule", a small, horn-shaped badge supposed to have been worn on the office-holder's helmet.

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A corniculary (Latin: corniculārius) or cornicular was an officer of the Roman legions who served as the adjutant to a centurion,1 so named for wearing a "cornicule" (Latin: corniculum), a small, horn-shaped badge supposed to have been worn on the office-holder's helmet.2

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  1. Freund, William; Lewis, Charlton Thomas (1884). Harpers' Latin Dictionary: A New Latin Dictionary Founded on the Translation of Freund's Latin-German Lexicon (in Latin). Harper & brothers. p. 470.
  2. Migotti, Branka (30 April 2017). Saxa loquuntur: Roman Epitaphs from North-Western Croatia: Rimski epitafi iz sjeverozapadne Hrvatske (in Croatian). Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78491-567-4.