Pilum, píli, n. g. priore producta. Cic.A dart or ianelin of fiue foote long and an halfe, which footemen did vse, hauing an head of steele nine in ches long. Primum pilum vocabatur prima cÊturia in exercitu Romano, quod circa signa grauis armatura cstituta esset. & inter cætera hastile quod pilum vocat Aduigilantia pila regum somnis.Stat.Catapularium pilum. Pla. A quarrel to be cast in an engin.Curuata pila cuspide. Lucan. Exesa pila rubigine.Virg.Agmina horrentia pilis. Hor. Infixa tergis hostium pila.Liu.Pila minantia pilis. Lucan. Muralia pila, Vide MVRVS. Sæua. Stat.Torquere pila. Lucan. To cast such darts. Pilum. Plin. A pestil to bray any thing in a morter.
Pilus, pili, priore correpta, m. gen. Plin. An haire.Munitæ sunt palpebræ tanquam vallo pilorum.Cic.Contrario pilo. Plin. Inordinatissimi pili, Vide INORDINATVS.Pilus frequens nascitur. Cels. Haire groweth thicke. Fruticante pilo neglecta & squalida crura. Iuue. Ad pilum vlcera reducere, Vide AD præpositionem.Vellere pilos caudæ equinæ. Hor. To pull haire off an horse taile. Pili non facio.Cic.I set not a haire by it.
pīlum, i, n. [for pis-lum, cf. piso, 1. pila, etc.], a pounder, pestle of a mortar. I.Lit.: pilum fabarium, Cato, R. R. 10; 18: quasi tollenonem aut pilum Graecum reciproces planā viā, a pounder, in using which, one side was raised while the other was depressed, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s v. reciprocare, p. 274 Müll.: pinsente pilo praeferrato, Plin. 18, 10, 23, 97: pilo contusum, Vulg. Exod. 27, 20.—II.Transf., the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry, which they hurled at the enemy at the commencement of the action, and then took to their swords: (caput) adfixum gestari jussit in pilo, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5: pilum, haud paulo quam hasta, vehementius ictu missuque telum, Liv. 9, 19; cf. Veg. Mil. 2, 15: milites e loco superiore pilis missis facile hostium phalangem perfregerunt, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: pilorum hastarumque honore circumdatus, Plin. Pan. 56, 5: in imperatorem suum legiones pila torserunt, Sen. Ira, 3, 2, 4; cf. Tac. A. 15, 7: pilum praepilatum, having a blunt or rounded end, Auct. B. Afr. 72. They were also used in sieges, being hurled at the enemy from the walls; these were called pila muralia, Caes. B. G. 5, 40; Tac. A. 4, 51.—Prov.: pilum inicere alicui,
to make an attack on one
, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 43.—B. Vis certe pila, i. e. to be primipilus of the triarii or veterans who carried two javelins each, Juv. 10, 94; v. Dict. of Antiq. p. 104.
