(adjective) : laurĕātus, a, um, laurea
* Crowned or decked with laurel, laureate: imago,Cic. Mur. 41, 88: lictores,id. Att. 7, 10, 1: fasces,id. Div. 1, 28, 59: legiones,Liv. 45, 39: litterae, a letter announcing a victory (so called because bound up with bay-leaves), a laurelled letter, id. 45, 1: litterae a Postumio laureatae sequuntur,id. 5, 28 fin.: tabellae,id. 45, 1.—Subst.: laurĕātae, ārum (sc. litterae), a letter announcing a victory: ne laureatis quidem gesta prosecutus est,Tac. Agr. 18 fin.; cf. laurus.

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