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Definition of Pilum
1. a heavy javelin [n PILA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilum
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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