1. trĭfax — Lewis & Short
trĭfax, fācis, f.,
I a kind of long missile weapon, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 367 Müll. (Ann. v. 524 Vahl.); cf. Gell. 10, 25, 2.
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trĭfax
trĭfax · f
a kind of long missile weapon
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2. trifäx — Walde–Hofmann
trifäx, -àcís Adj. „eine durch die catapulta geschleuderte, drei Ellen lange Fernwaffe* (Enn. ann, 534, vgl. Paul. Fest. p. 367): unerkl. trifolium s. folíum oben I 523. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. trifäx, p. 1613]
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