The corpus record — Latin

falarica

falarica · f

a sort of missile wrapped with tow and pitch

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

fălārĭca — Lewis & Short

fălārĭca (phal-), ae, f.fala,

I a sort of missile wrapped with tow and pitch, set on fire, and thrown by the catapult (cf. for syn.: tragula, sagitta, sparus, spicula, telum, missile, etc.), Liv. 21, 8, 10 sq.; Sil. 1, 351; 9, 239; Luc. 6, 198; Veg. Mil. 4, 18.—

II Transf., a similar missile thrown by hand, Verg. A. 9, 705; Enn. ap. Non. 555, 15 (Ann. v. 534 ed. Vahl.); Liv. 34, 14, 11; Grat. Cyneg. 342.

In the wild

phalarica Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.25.2
falarica Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.411
phalarica Silius Italicus, Punica 1.351
phalarica Silius Italicus, Punica 6.273
phalarica Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p8
phalarica Silius Italicus, Punica 9.339

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.