The corpus record — Latin

hastile

hastile · n

the shaft of a spear

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

hastīle — Lewis & Short

hastīle (also astīle), is, n.hasta,

I the shaft of a spear or javelin.

I Lit.: ferrum, quod ex hastili in corpore remanserat, Nep. Epam. 9: hastili nixus, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: missile telum hastili abiegno, Liv. 21, 8, 10.—

II Transf.

A (Pars pro toto.) A spear, javelin, in gen. (poet.): torquere hastilia lenta, Ov. M. 8, 28; Verg. A. 1, 313; 5, 557; 12, 489; Sen. Hippol. 397: curvatum, Juv. 7, 127.—

B In gen., a piece of wood in the form of a shaft (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). So of branches, Verg. A. 3, 23; of poles, props, id. G. 2, 358; Col. 4, 12, 1; Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 212; the standard: candelabri, Vulg. Exod. 25, 31: arcus, Amm. 22, 8, 37.

In the wild

hastilia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.19
hastilia Vergil, Aeneid 11.650
hastilia Seneca, De Ira 1.6.1
hastilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p4
hastilia Statius, Thebais 4.86
hastilia Silius Italicus, Punica 16.526

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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