belt; shoulder-band/baldric; woman's girdle
Latin word, found 22 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.44.7: Transfigitur scutum Pulloni et verutum in balteo defigitur.
Vergil, Aeneid 10.496: exanimem, rapiens immania pondera baltei
Tacitus, Historiae 2.92: … is se castris miscuerat. incuriosos milites—vernacula utebantur urbanitate—quidam spoliavere, abscisis furtim balteis an accincti forent rogitantes. non tulit ludibrium insolens contumeliarum animus: inermem populum gladiis inv …
All forms of balteum