A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TRI´BULUS

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TRI´BULUS

TRI´BULUS (τρίβολος), a caltrop, also called murex (V. Max. 3.7.2; Curt. 4.13.36). When a place was beset with troops, the one party endeavoured to impede the cavalry of the other party either by throwing before them caltrops, which necessarily lay with one of their four sharp points turned upwards, or by burying the caltrops with one point at the surface of the ground (Veget. de Re Mil. 3.24; Jul. Afric. 69; Polyaen. 139, 2). The taleae (Caes. Gal. 7.73) and the hami, stimuli or still (Bell. Afr. 31), were for the same purpose. They were pieces of wood with curved iron points, buried in the ground. The annexed

Tribulus.

woodcut is taken from a bronze caltrop figured by Caylus (Recueil, iv. pl. 98).

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. William Smith, LLD. William Wayte. G. E. Marindin. Albemarle Street, London. John Murray. 1890.

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890)
William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.

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William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.