A type of javelin or throwing weapon used in ancient times, possibly of Thracian or Eastern European origin.
Possibly from Thracian or other ancient languages, referring to a specific weapon design, though the exact etymology remains uncertain in modern linguistic scholarship.
Ancient weapons with non-Greek names hint at cultures and technologies that were so foreign to Greek writers that they never bothered translating the names — weapons often traveled between cultures long before their names did.
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