Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scorpio

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. 

SCOR'PIO, -US and -OS (σκορπίος, -πίων). A weapon for discharging stones, plummets, and arrows (Veget. Mil. iv. 22. Ammian. xxiii. 4.), handled by a single man, but requiring skill to be used effectively (Vitruv. x. 1. 3.); and probably the same as, or very similar to, the modern cross-bow, the form of which has a close affinity to that of a scorpion, the insect after which it was named.

2. A heap of stones piled up to a point, and employed as a boundary mark between adjacent properties. Sicul. Flacc. de Condit. Agror. pp. 4. 6. Goes.