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

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Harpăgo

and Harpăga (ἁρπάγη). A hook or grappling-iron used in domestic economy for taking meats from the caldron, drawing up pails from wells, etc. In war, hooks of huge size (ferreae

Bronze Harpago or Flesh-hook. (British Museum.)

manus) were used by the Romans in grappling with hostile ships (Florus, ii. 2), and were said to have been invented by Pericles (Plin. H. N. vii. 57).

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

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