Pilum

The pilum is a stout wooden shaft 41 feet long, with an iron spit about three feet long fixed in it. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

[*] The pilum was the Roman pike, and the spatha the short single-edged Roman sword. ❋ Unknown (1891)

His weapons were a javelin (pilum) and a short sword (gladius). ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)

But the Romans had every legionary trained in the use of the javelin pilum and and lots of archer auxiliary mostly from the east - light mounted archers with composite or recurve bows from Numidia, Osrhoene and Parthia, foot archers from Syria, even specialised slingers from the Balearic isles. ❋ Carla (2009)

Mark picked up on the wave attack tactic - the first line hits with +3 for pilum charge, then next turn the second joins in in the gaps and they get the pilum charge bonus again. ❋ Cromwell MkI (2008)

So I will learn to use the gladius and the longsword, I will shoot arrows and throw rocks from slings, I will practice casting my pilum and my hasta, I will run, hurdle, and swim. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Further Gaul is about to drop into your lap without a pilum raised in anger. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Any man who burns his picket stake, section of breastworks, or pilum shaft will be flogged and beheaded—we may need them to fight Parthian raids off. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Moving and returning armies of labor outnumbering the legions of Rome and carrying the spade further than the latter ever carried the pilum, is probably the true solution of China's problem, not obscuring the yellow note in it, but taking away all peril which in the surmise of a timorous diplomacy used to be braided in with it. posted by davesgonechina at ❋ Unknown (2007)

No argument, no excuses, no phone calls from the Governor, no time to pray, just a pilum up their fundament. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Pellicia cuiuscunque sunt generis in eundem modum formantur: superius tamen pellicium exterius habet pilum, sed � posterioribus est apertum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I will go to the Campus Martius to perform my drills, practise my swordplay, ride my horse, handle my shield, throw my pilum. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)