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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Framea

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FRAM'EA. The spear used by the Germans, which had a short, but very sharp iron head, and was employed both as a pike at close quarters, and as a missile for hurling (Tac. Germ. 6.), in which manner it is used by the annexed figure (Framea/1.1), representing a German warrior, on the Column of Antoninus.

  • Framea/1.1
    Framea/1.1

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