Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Gaesum

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. 

GAE'SUM (γᾶισον). A very strong and weighty javelin, which appears to have been made, both head and stock, of solid iron (Pollux. vii. 156.), and to have been employed as a missile, rather than as a spear (Caes. B. G. iii. 4.), each warrior carrying two as his complement. (Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 555.) The weapon was of Gaulish origin (Virg. Aen. viii. 662.); though it was sometimes used by the Romans (Liv. viii. 8.), by the Iberians (Athen. vi. 106.), the Carthaginians (Liv. xxvi. 6. Sil. Ital. ii. 444.), and the Greeks. (Stat. Theb. iv. 64.