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For example, the
verb iaculari is specially used in the sense of “to
throw a javelin,” whereas there is no special verb
appropriated to the throwing of a ball or a stake.
So, too, while lapidare has the obvious meaning of
“to stone,” there is no special word to describe
the throwing of clods or potsherds.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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