Meaning of aclys | Babel Free

Definitions

a small javelin attached to a strap

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Examples

“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”

“Iamque Ebusus Phoenissa movet, movet Arbacus arma,”

Now Phoenician Ebusus rises in arms; and the Arbacians, fierce fighters with the dart or slender javelin. ― tr.: ibidem, p. 141

“Aclydes, iacula brevia.”

Aclydes [are] short javelins.

“Cur modo præcipites Aclydas ſeponis ab arcu?”

Why do you now lay the swift javelins apart from the bow?

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