iaculum

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A dart, a javelin
 * 2) * C. Iulii Caesaris commentarii de bello Gallico. Für den Schulgebrauch erklärt von Dr. Albert Doberenz. Sechste Auflage, 1874, p. 157 (lib. V, cap. 43) and p. 160 (lib. V, cap. 45):
 * Septimo oppugnationis die maximo coorto vento ferventes fusili ex argilla glandes fundis et fervefacta iacula in casas, quae more Gallico stramentis erant tectae, iacere coeperunt.
 * Has ille in iaculo illigatas effert et Gallus inter Gallos sine ulla suspicione versatus ad Caesarem pervenit.
 * 1) * 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 25:18
 * Iaculum et gladius et sagittā acūtā homō quī loquitur contrā proximum suum testimōnium falsum
 * A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.
 * (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)
 * 1) A casting net, the weapon of a retiarius