Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lupus

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. 

LUPUS (λύκοσ). Same as LUPATUM. Ov. Trist. iv. 6. 4. Stat. Ach. i. 281. Plut. ii. 641. F.

2. A small straight-handled saw. Pallad. i. 43. 2. Same as SERRULA MANUBRIATA.

3. Lupus ferreus. A sort of grappling iron, employed in the defence of fortified places to seize upon the beam of a battering-ram (aries), and break the force of its blow by diverting it from the proper direction. Liv. xxviii. 3. Veg. Mil. ii. 25. iv. 23.