Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dolon

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DOLON or DOLO (δόλων). A long and strong stick, with a small sharp iron point at the extremity. Virg. Aen. vii. 664. Varro, ap. Serv. ad l.

2. A sword stick, in which a poniard is concealed (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. vii. 664. Isidor. Orig. xviii. 9. 4. Suet. Claud. 13. Plut. T. Gracch. 10.); whence appropriately transferred to the sting of a fly. Phaedr. iii. 6. 3.

3. A small fore-sail on a ship with more than one mast, carried over the prow, and attached to the foremast (Isidor. Orig. xix. 3. 3. Liv. xxxvi. 44. Polyb. xvi. 15. 2.), as is clearly seen in the annexed illustration (Dolon/3.1), from a bas-relief of the Villa Borghese. If the vessel had three masts, and consequently three sail, the dolon was the smallest of the three. Pollux, i. 91.

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  Dolon/3.1