Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Glans

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. 

GLANS (μολυβδίς). A large leaden slug or plummet, cast in a mould, and used instead of a stone to be discharged from a sling. (Sall. Jug. 61. Liv. xxxviii. 20, 21. 29). The engraving (Glans/1.1) represents an original found at the ancient Labicum; the letters FIR are for firmiter, "Throw steadily," or Feri, Roma (Inscript. ap. Orelli. 4932.), "Strike, O Rome!" Others have been found in Greece, inscribed with the figure of a thunderbolt, or ΔΕΞΑΙ, "Take this."

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