A lithobolos (Greek: λιθοβόλος) refers to any mechanical artillery weapon used and/or referred to as a stone thrower in ancient warfare. Typically this...
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Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager Trebuchet Hand-held weapons Bow Cheiroballistra Crossbow...
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Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager Trebuchet Hand-held weapons Bow Cheiroballistra Crossbow...
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Catapult 500 BC Greece A signature siege engine, used until World War I. Lithobolos 5th Century BC Magadha, India Siege engines that propel a stone along...
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Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager Trebuchet Hand-held weapons Bow Cheiroballistra Crossbow...
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Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager Trebuchet Hand-held weapons Bow Cheiroballistra Crossbow...
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Stone thrower may refer to: Lithobolos Stone throwing This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Stone thrower. If an internal link...
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ballista") fundibula (sling) palintonos ("fold back spring") brigoles lithobolos ("stone thrower") pararia (lit. "the equalizer") calibres katapeltes patera...
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various types exist. Carroballista Cheiroballistra Hellenistic armies Lithobolos Polybolos Scorpio (weapon) [http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/hesperia...
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type called the oxybeles and a larger stone-throwing machine called the lithobolos. The largest lithoboloi could fire stones up to 80 kg (180 lb) in weight...
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simpler to construct than a ballista. The application was like that of a lithobolos (the stone throwing version of a ballista), but shots were less precise...
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oxybela and catapult, then ballistas), and the stone thrower (petróbolo or lithobolo in Greek, and Latin, according to the times, balista, onager and scorpio)...
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Lion Painter Lip cup Lipara (mythology) Liriope Litae Literary topos Lithobolos Litra Little Iliad Little-Master cup Little Masters Liturgy Lityerses...
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