Leather strap that crosses the chest and holds the sword, often adorned with metal. The baldric of Pallas has engraved on it the massacre of husbands by the daughters of Danaus. Turnus tears it from the boy's body and wears it as a trophy, and the narrator warns that one day he will hate this spoil: it is the baldric that Aeneas sees on the shoulder of the vanquished man and that leads him to kill him at the end of the poem.
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