Crossword-Solution: AMENTUM 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Schneider and Halbkart, strangely enough, think that Xenophon is speaking of _cross-bows_, which few besides themselves have supposed to have been known in Xenophon's time.] [Footnote 191: Ἐναγκυλῶντες.] "Fitting them with ἀγκύλαι." The ἀγκύλη is generally supposed to be the same with the Latin _amentum_, a strap or loop fastened to the middle of a javelin, or the shaft of a spear, that it might be hurled with the greater force.

The ‘amentum’ was the thong, or strap of leather, with which the lance, or javelin, was fastened, in order to draw it back when thrown.] [Footnote 36: _Not used to bear._--Ver.

None of the contrivances for assisting the flight of the spear, such as the throwing-stick or the amentum, were employed by the natives of the islands we visited.

These swords were generally made to strike with the edge rather than to stab.[106] The Gauls had also spears, the iron of which, very long and very broad, presented sometimes an undulated form (_materis_, σαὑνιον).[107] They also made use of light javelins without _amentum_,[108] of the bow, and of the sling.

Further, in case the Gaul could not penetrate to Cicero, he had directed him to attach the letter to the _amentum_ (see page 37, note 2) of his javelin, and throw it over the retrenchments.