Spears

He chose four shields, eight spears, and four brass helmets with horse-hair plumes.

the spear caught him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell heavily to the ground and struck the earth with his forehead.

He girded his sword about his shoulder, bound his sandals on his comely feet, and took a doughty spear with a point of sharpened bronze;

and the tongue's wound, for the injury it works, is like the spear's.

But while to those once called the Sown Men at Thebes there was, they say, a token of their race—a spear, I think, upon the body—and whoever did not have this token did not seem to be one of the Sown Men, do you not think that there is a token in the soul of the offspring of Zeus, by which they will be made manifest to those able to recognize whether they are born of him or not?

But when the phalanx of the hoplites kept moving on to meet them, marching rapidly, and at the same time the trumpet sounded, and they struck up the paean and after that raised the battle-cry, and at the same moment couched their spears, then the enemy no longer awaited the attack, but took to flight.

The orders had been to keep their spears on the right shoulder until a signal should be given with the trumpet;

As for the hunting spears, though he did not show them to him, he laid them down all blood-stained where he thought his grandfather would see them.

they carry along also a light shield and two spears, on to throw, the other to use in case of necessity in a hand-to-hand encounter.

And then, I present to you the animals that are now in the park and I will collect others of every description, and as soon as you learn to ride, you shall hunt and slay them with bow and spear, just as grown-up men do.