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Tribŭlus

（τρίβολος). A ball with sharp spikes, used to impede a charge of cavalry. It was also called murex. See illustration under Murex.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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