Editing Palatine (section)

===Ancient Rome: ''palatinus''===
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[[File:Apex (hat).gif|thumb|Official and ceremonial hat of the [[Salii (priests)|Salii]] and [[Flamen|Flamines]].]]

The members of the Imperial Guard were named after [[Palatine Hill]], the mythical founding place of Rome. On the same hill lived the members of the older of two schools of the ancient [[Salii (priests)|Salii]] brotherhood of God of War [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]], which had some symbolism in common with that of the imperial palace.<ref>Frank, R.I., Scholae Palatinae. The Palace Guards of the Later Roman Empire Rome, 1969</ref> Military training schools were the [[scholae]], and the Imperial Guard was called [[Scholae Palatinae]]. It was a personal army that the emperor was allowed to use personally on campaigns.<ref>[[Jochen Bleicken|Bleicken]], [[Werner Dahlheim|Dahlheim]] etc, Roman History, {{ISBN|3-506-73927-1}}</ref>