pike
pike
subs.
Use lance.
subs.
Use lance.
PIKE
A kind of weapon hasta: a pikestaff hasta pura: pikeman miles hastatus.
A kind of fish lupus (Plin.); lucius (Auson.); *esox lucius (Linn.).
A kind of weapon hasta: a pikestaff hasta pura: pikeman miles hastatus.
A kind of fish lupus (Plin.); lucius (Auson.); *esox lucius (Linn.).
pike:
I. A weapon: sărissa (the p. of the Macedonian phalangites) Liv. 9, 19, med.: Lucan. (Hasta denoted properly, a spear or javelin for hurling from a distance; but the elongated hasta of Iphicrates [Nep. vit. 1] was evidently a pike for thrusting: pilum is the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry.) See alsoSPEAR .
II. The fish: perh. lŭpus Hor S. 2, 2, 31: Plin. or, lucius, Aus. id. 10, 123 (*esox lucius, Linn. cf. Plin. 9, 15. 17).
I. A weapon: sărissa (the p. of the Macedonian phalangites) Liv. 9, 19, med.: Lucan. (Hasta denoted properly, a spear or javelin for hurling from a distance; but the elongated hasta of Iphicrates [Nep. vit. 1] was evidently a pike for thrusting: pilum is the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry.) See also
II. The fish: perh. lŭpus Hor S. 2, 2, 31: Plin. or, lucius, Aus. id. 10, 123 (*esox lucius, Linn. cf. Plin. 9, 15. 17).