object

Hasta

Objects

A named Roman thrusting-spear of later practice, distinct from the throwing pilum. Not a pilum, not a pelian spear, and not a generic spear dump.

Also known as Roman hasta

Roman religion

  • Hasta appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid names the hasta as the thrusting-spear of Aeneas’s war. A named Roman spear in that epic, not Caesar’s throwing pilum and not a Pelian spear.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.