. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. rmies,the shaft of which was about threefeet long, and of the thickness of afinger, whilst the head was not morethan a span in length, but so thin andfinely acuminated, that it bent imme-diately upon coming in contact withany thing which offered solid resist- ance ; consequently, if the soldiermissed his aim,
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. rmies,the shaft of which was about threefeet long, and of the thickness of afinger, whilst the head was not morethan a span in length, but so thin andfinely acuminated, that it bent imme-diately upon coming in contact withany thing which offered solid resist- ance ; consequently, if the soldiermissed his aim, it was useless to theenemy, and could not be thrown backagain. (Liv. xxxviii. 20. Plin. H. 6. Polyb. vi. 22.) The headof one of these weapons is shownby the illustration, from an originalfound in a Roman entrenchment atMeon Hill in Gloucestershire. 5. Hasta pura. A spear withouta head (cuspis), likethe old Greek sceptre(sceptrum), which theRoman general usedto bestow as an hono-rary reward upon asoldier who had dis-tinguished himself inbattle. (Tac. 21. Virg. 760. Serv. ad. Claud. 28.) Theillustration is copiedfrom a painting inthe sepulchre of theNasonian family near Rome. 6. Hasta prcepilata, with the ante-penult short. A spear with the point. HAST A. HASTATI. 331 muffled, or covered with a button orball (pita) at the end, like our foils(Plin. H. N. viii. 6.), used by soldiersat their exercises (Hist. B. Afr. 72.),and at reviews or sham fights. 51. 7. Hasta pampinea. The thyrsusof Bacchus, so termed because it wasoriginally a spear with its headburied in vine leaves (Virg. JEn. vii.
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