(spiculum) point, sting; dart, arrow
Latin word, found 110 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 10.60: spicula:—tamquam haec sit nostri medicina furoris,
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.516: Spicula de pharetra promit acuta sua.
Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.70.7: haud surdis auribus dicta. impressione una totum equitatum fudere, magnam vim ex equis praecipitavere, ipsos equosque spiculis confodere.
All forms of spicula