Engineering:Dolabra
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The dolabra[1] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege of Augustodunum Haeduorum, armoured Gallic gladiators were defeated by legionaries wielding dolabrae.[2]
According to Frontinus, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo was fond of saying, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".[3][4]
See also
Citations
- ↑ William, Smith (1890). "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities". http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0063:id=dolabra-cn.
- ↑ Cowan, Ross (September 2021). "Tales of the Axe". Ancient Warfare Magazine 15 (2): 9. https://www.everand.com/article/534916726/Tales-Of-The-Axe.
- ↑ Frontinus, Stratagems 4.7.2
- ↑ Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
General and cited references
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army.
- Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
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