javelin (the Roman heavy throwing spear)
Latin word, found 112 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.52.3: Ita nostri acriter in hostes signo dato impetum fecerunt itaque hostes repente celeriterque procurrerunt, ut spatium pila in hostes coiciendi non daretur.
Vergil, Aeneid 7.664: Pila manu saevosque gerunt in bella dolones
All forms of pilum