Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Verutum

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. 

VERU'TUM (σαύνιον). (Virg. Georg. ii. 168. Sil. Ital. iii. 363.) Same as VERU, 2.

2. In the time of Vegetius, this name was given to the weapon described s. VERUCULUM Veg. Mil. ii. 15.