Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sicilis

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. 

SICI'LIS. A spear-head, characterised by the broadness of its point (Ennius and Festus, s. v.), and a partial resemblance to the outline of the Caspian sea (Plin. H. N. vi. 15.); both which properties are sufficiently apparent in the annexed figure (Sicilis/1.1), from an original spear-head found at Pompeii, to admit of its being produced as a probable example of the form in question. A spear-head of exactly the same shape occurs twice on the column of Trajan.

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