Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A missile bearing burning tow and pitch, used in antiquity and in the middle ages. It was thrown by a catapult or by hand.
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Examples
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Livy fays, that a kind of - dart or miffive weapon, called falarica (L), was of fingular fervice to the Saguntines: on this occafion ".
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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_ This _pilum_ may have been, as Müller suggests, similar to the _falarica_ which Livy (xxi. 8) says that the
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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