Parmenses

1.

parma (or in the collat. form pal-ma, Tib. 1, 9, 82; and so many MSS. in Prop. 2, 19, 44 (3, 20, 8); 4 (5), 10, 40; Liv. 22, 1, 9), ae (old gen. parmaï, Lucr. 4, 847), f., = parmê, a small, round shield, a target, carried by the light infantry and the cavalry.

I.

Lit.: configunt parmam, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 432 Vahl.); Varr. ap. Non. 552, 30: desiliunt ex equis, provolant in primum agmen et pro antesignanis parmas obiciunt, Liv. 2, 20; 2, 6, 9; 31, 35 fin.:

hic miles (veles) tripedalem parmam habet,

id. 38, 21 fin.; 26, 4; Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 554, 23:

picta fulgebat,

Prop. 4, 10, 21.—

II.

Transf.

A.

In gen., a shield ( poet. ):

(Pallas) parmamque ferens hastamque trementem,

Verg. A. 2, 175; 11, 693; Mart. 9, 21, 10.—

B.

A gladiator armed with a parma, a Threx (v. Threx) ( poet. ), Mart. 9, 69, 8.—

C.

The valve in a pair of bellows, Aus. Idyll. 10, 267.

2.

Parma, ae, f., the city of Parma, in Gallia Cispadana, between Cremona and Placentia, famed for its breed of sheep, Plin. 3, 15, 20, § 115; Cic. Fam. 12, 5, 2; 10, 33, 4; Liv. 39, 55:

velleribus primis Apulia, Parma secundis Nobilis,

Mart. 14, 155, 1; cf. id. 2, 43, 4; 5, 13, 8.—Hence,

II.

Par-mensis, e, adj., of or belonging to Parma, Parman:

Cassī Parmensis opuscula,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 3.—In plur.: Parmenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Parma, the Parmans, Cic. Phil. 14, 3, 8; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, a.