bottle_head9
Well-Known Member
Didn`t know how to use a computer, so my wife made me a name for an Ebay account about 7 years ago....Didn`[8|]t put any thought into it....
OHHHH........ok....... but if anybody laughs i know people who know people who know people who know a guys cousin that will make your life miserable[8D][]......well,as you know im not exactly Steve Jobs........so when i was registering instead of crashing the computer i got my mom to do it,i guess she though you had to use you email as your username so she put that,which is a combination of mine and my sisters names........not exactly what i would have chosen but im stuck with it now.........remember.......no [sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif]ing[>:][>:][>:][>:][>:][>:][>:][>:][>:]ORIGINAL: Plumbata
I know I've related this before, but a plumbata is a lead-weighted, fletched, and lightweight javelin/dart used by the Romans and Byzantines to maim and kill their enemies. In the units so equipped, each soldier would have 5 plumbatae on the inside of his shield, and would rain wickedly barbed death upon their poorly-coordinated adversaries from a point well outside the range of more conventional throwing spears and javelins.
It's the piece positioned horizontally in the center:
So what is the meaning of carobran, eh?