cateia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cateia, cateiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Military
kind of spear; (probably barbed);
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...gaesa, lancea, spari, rumices, trifaces, tragulae, frameae, mesanculae, cateiae, rumpiae, scorpii, sibones, siciles, veruta, enses, sicae, machaerae, spathae..." 
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...vellere coniunx et puer e primo torquens temone cateias. linquitur abruptus pelago Tyra, linquitur et mons Ambenus..."- P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...maliferae despectant moenia Abellae, Teutonico ritu soliti torquere cateias; tegmina quis capitum raptus de subere cortex aerataeque micant..."