Definition of Pilum

1. Noun. A Roman military javelin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pilum

1. a heavy javelin [n PILA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilum

pilow
pilows
pilpul
pilsener
pilseners
pilsenite
pilsner
pilsners
pilula
pilular
pilulas
pilule
pilules
pilulous
pilum (current term)
pilwe
pilwes
pily
pim 1
pimaric
pimaric acid
pimaricin
pimas
pimavanserin
pimecrolimus
pimelate
pimelic
pimelic acid

Literary usage of Pilum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of the Greeks and Romans: Described from Antique Monuments by Ernst Karl Guhl, W. Koner (1902)
"The consecutive modifications of the pilum by Marius (Plutarch, 25) and Ca'sar belong to the special history of Roman arms. ..."

2. Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice by Paul Lacombe (1907)
"14, are shown two examples of the ' pilum,' both of them of degenerate eras, and which give ... The account given by Polybius of the pilum that was in use, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... to whom the use of the spade and the pick-axe was no less familiar than that of the sword or pilum. Active valour may often be the present of nature ..."

4. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[pilum], о god of the Latins, who taught how to crush corn, ... ne pilum quidem (accepi), nothing whatever : ne ullum pilum viri boni ..."

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