aclys

Etymology
First attested in ’s , taken from the.

Noun

 * 1) a small  attached to a
 * 2) * 29–19 BC, P. Vergilius Maro (aut.), J.B. Greenough (ed.), Aeneis in The Bucolics, Æneid, and Georgics of Virgil (1900), bk vii, ll. 730f.:
 * Teretes sunt aclydes illis tela, sed haec lento mos est aptare flagello.
 * Their arms are tapered javelins, which they wear bound by a coiling thong. ― tr.: T.C. Williams, The Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse (1908), bk vii, p. 253
 * 1) * c. AD 83–96, Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (aut.), J.D. Duff (ed.), Punica I (1927), bk iii, ll. 362f (p. 140):
 * Iamque Ebusus Phoenissa movet, movet Arbacus arma, aclyde vel tenui pugnax instare veruto.
 * Now Phoenician Ebusus rises in arms; and the Arbacians, fierce fighters with the dart or slender javelin. ― tr.: ibidem, p. 141
 * 1) * c. AD 205–220, (aut.), W.M. Lindsay (ed.), De Conpendiosa Doctrina libri XX (1903), vol. III, bk xix, 554 M., l. 3 (p. 889):
 * Aclydes, iacula brevia.
 * Aclydes [are] short javelins.