See CYZICUS.
LABARUM, The.
"The chief banner of the Christian emperors [Roman] was the
so-called 'labarum.' Eusebius describes it as a long lance
with a cross-piece; to the latter a square silk flag was
attached, into which the images of the reigning emperor and
his children were woven. To the point of the lance was
fastened a golden crown enclosing the monogram of Christ and
the sign of the cross."
_E. Guhl and W. Koner,
Life of the Greeks and Romans,
section 107._
ALSO IN:
_E. Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
chapter 20._
See CHRISTIANITY: A.D. 312-337.
LA BICOQUE, Battle of (1522).
See FRANCE: A. D. 1520-1523.