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Contus

（κοντός).

1.

A pole with a pointed iron at the end, used as a punt-pole by boatmen.

2.

Contus. (Mosaic at Praeneste.)

A huge pike such as those carried by barbarian soldiers ( Hist. i. 44).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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