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The aklys (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 aclys, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 agkulis) was a Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 javelin
Javelin

A Javelin is a throw weapon, used more commonly in the modern athletics discipline: Javelin throw.Javelin may also refer to:* Javelin , a DC Comics supervillain...
 measuring approximately 2 m. (79 in., 6.6 ft) in length, thrown with the aid of a leather strap or amentum
Amentum

An amentum was a leather strap attached to a javelin used in ancient Greek athletics, which helped to increase the stability of the javelin in flight....
. Every soldier was issued at least two.

The term also applies to a small mace or club
Club (weapon)

A club is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff , or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon....
 equipped with spikes, attached to one arm of the wielder by a strap of adjustable length to enable the weapon to be retrieved after it had been hurled at an enemy.






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The aklys (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 aclys, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 agkulis) was a Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 javelin
Javelin

A Javelin is a throw weapon, used more commonly in the modern athletics discipline: Javelin throw.Javelin may also refer to:* Javelin , a DC Comics supervillain...
 measuring approximately 2 m. (79 in., 6.6 ft) in length, thrown with the aid of a leather strap or amentum
Amentum

An amentum was a leather strap attached to a javelin used in ancient Greek athletics, which helped to increase the stability of the javelin in flight....
. Every soldier was issued at least two.

The term also applies to a small mace or club
Club (weapon)

A club is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff , or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon....
 equipped with spikes, attached to one arm of the wielder by a strap of adjustable length to enable the weapon to be retrieved after it had been hurled at an enemy. Its use probably goes back to the Osci
Osci

The Osci were an Italic people of Southern Italy dwelling in Northern Campania and ultimately settling in the border region between Latium and Campania....
 tribe of southern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.

The weapon is also described as a dart
Dart (missile)

Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from Javelin s by fletching and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal bow....
  and as a throwing stick
Throwing Stick

The throwing stick is one of the first weapons used by early humans and cultures all around the world. In essence, it is a short stave or wooden club thrown as a projectile to hunt small game such as rabbits or waterfowl....
 or boomerang
Boomerang

Boomerangs are curved pieces of wood used as weapons and sport equipment. Boomerangs come in many shapes and sizes depending on their geographic or tribal origins and intended function....
.

Popular culture

The aklys, as a "thonged club", appears in various fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 games such as Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by TSR, Inc....
 (the 1985 manual Unearthed Arcana
Unearthed Arcana

Unearthed Arcana is the title shared by two hardback books published for different Editions of Dungeons & Dragons of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game....
) and in NetHack
NetHack

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 in video gaming. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack , which is a descendant of Rogue ....
  at least as far back as 1987.

See also

  • Javelin throw
    Javelin throw

    The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....
  • Military of ancient Rome
    Military of ancient Rome

    The military of ancient Rome Relates To The Combined Military forces of Rome from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD....
  • Morning star
    Morning star (weapon)

    The terms morning star, goedendag, and holy water sprinkler are used to describe medieval club-like weapons which included one or more spikes....
  • Ranged weapon
    Ranged weapon

    A ranged weapon or missile weapon is any weapon that launches a projectile or that is a projectile itself. In contrast, a weapon intended to be used in man-to-man combat is called a melee weapon....
  • Roman army
    Roman army

    The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
  • Roman military personal equipment
  • Spear
    Spear

    A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft, such as obsidian, iron or bronze....