From the Canadian Journal for March, 1864.
ON
INSCRIBED SLING-BULLETS.[1]
BY THE REV. JOHN McCAUL, LL. D.,
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO, AND OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE.
The leaden bullets, which were thrown from slings, were called in Greek μολύβδαιναι, and in Latin glandes; the former indicating the material, “lead,” the latter, the shape, “acorns.” As an interesting and well-prepared account of the use of such missiles, in military operations, is given, in the Archæologia, vol. xxxii., by Mr. Walter Hawkins, it is unnecessary for me to discuss the
- ↑ Mommsen, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, i. Berlin, 1863.
Ritschl, Prisc. Lat. Mon. Epig. ad archetyporum fidem exemplis lithographis repræsentata, Berlin, 1862.
Boeckh, Corpus Inscriptionum Græcarum, ii. Berlin, 1833.
Boeckh,Franz, Corpus„ Inscriptionum„ Græcarum,„ iii. Berlin, 1853.
Boeckh,Curtius, Corpus„ Inscriptionum„ Græcarum,„ iV. Berlin, 1856.
De Minicis, ‘Sulle antiche ghiande missili e sulle loro iscrizioni,’ Atti della Pontef. Accad. d’Archeol. xi. Rome, 1844.
Hawkins, Archæologia, xxxii. London, 1847.
