Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cervi

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so called from their resemblance to the horns of a stag. Branches of trees interlaced with their points projecting, used in war, as palisading or chevaux-de-frise, in front of or upon earthworks or fortifications (B. G. vii. 72; Liv. xliv. 11, 4), and sometimes, where there were no fortifications, stuck simply into the level ground (Sil. Ital. x. 413, 414).

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

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