Dolabra
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The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people in Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics.
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe."[1]
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Bibliography[edit]
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army
- Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
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- ^ Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
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