| In these cases, the detached subunits carried only the vexillum, and not the aquila, and were called, therefore, vexillationes. |
| Some writers apply this name to flags of vexillum form, with or without tails at the base. |
| From the ends of this cross-piece, whether it held a vexillum or not, hung ribbons with silver ivy leaves at the ends. |
| The labarum, which was the imperial standard of later emperors, resembled in shape and fixing the vexillum. |
| One of the ships was the Mora, the Duke's ship given to him by the Duchess Matilda, which bore at the top of the mast a fanal blessed by the Pope, the famous vexillum sancti Petri. |
| Each legion, furthermore, had a vexillifer who carried a vexillum or signum, with the legion name and emblem depicted on it, unique to the legion. |
