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

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（γαῖσον). A very strong and weighty javelin, which appears to have been made, both head and stock, of solid iron (Poll.vii. 156), and to have been employed as a missile rather than as a spear, each warrior carrying two as his complement (Varr. ap. Non. s. v. p. 555). The weapon was of Gallic origin (Verg. Aen. viii. 662); though it was sometimes used by the Romans, the Iberians, the Carthaginians (Livy, xxvi. 6), and the Greeks. See Hasta.

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

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