[52] The throwing of a spear was the Roman mode of declaring war: see Dict. A. ‘Fetiales.’ Med. has ‘intorquens,’ perhaps from 10. 323. ‘Attorquens’ is said to occur nowhere else. Forc. does not give it. Heins. thinks “ad” i. q. “simul:” Wagn. explains it by “valde.” Is it not rather ‘hurling at’?
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