Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 101
orsbore the eagle. Acolor - guard of fiftymen carried it beforethe Caesar when hetook command of hisarmy. It was his per-sonal standard, andrepresented his impe-rial power (see Fig. 18).Constantine theGreat, before his con-version to Christianityin a. d. 312, bore a banner (called a labarum)with… … Fig. 20.—Standards of theRoman Legions. Thelowest picture shows themonogram, XP, of Christ. ANCIENT STANDARDS AND BANNERS. 71 gram of Christ XP (Ch, r) in Greek letters*(see the picture of the labarum of Constan-tine in Fig. 34) and after a time the crossreplaced the portrait of the Emperor, andthe…
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