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TRI′BULUS, (τρίβολος), a caltrop, also called murex (Val. Max. III.3.7 § 2;º Curt. IV.13 § 36). When a place was beset with troops, the one party endeavoured to impede the cavalry of the other party either by throwing before them caltrops, which necessarily lay with one of their four sharp points turned upwards, or by burying the caltrops with one point at the surface of the ground (Veget. de Re Mil. III.24; Jul. Afric. 69 ap. Vet. Math. Graec. p311).a The annexed woodcut is taken from a bronze caltrop figured by Caylus (Recueil, IV pl. 98).
a Also Procopius, B. G. III.24.16 ff.
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