fuscina

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

fuscĭna, ae, f. [kindr. with furca],

a three-pronged spear , a trident : dant (deo) arcum, sagittas, hastam, clipeum, fuscinam, fulmen, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; as an attribute of Neptune, Suet. Calig. 52; as a weapon of the retiarii, id. ib. 30; Juv. 2, 143; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 66.

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