Ericius
Ericius a hedgehog, i. e. a military engine full of sharp spikes, which was placed by the gate of the camp to prevent the approach of the enemy. (Caes. B.C. 3.67; Sallust, ap. Non. p. 554 M. Lipsius, Poliorcet. 5.4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.