Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Veruculum

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. 

VERU'CULUM or VERIC'ULUM (ὀβελίσκος). Diminutive of VERU; the name given to the smallest of two javelins carried by the regular Roman infantry, which had a triangular-shaped head of iron, five inches long, and a wooden shaft of three feet and a half. (Veg. Mil. ii. 15.) The annexed example (Veruculum/1.1), from an ancient monument published by Alstorp, coincides exactly with the above description; and also indicates that the ancient spit (veru), after which the weapon was named, had sometimes a flat triangular head, like the modern ones, instead of a plain long point.

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  Veruculum/1.1