Lupus ferreus
Lupus ferreus the grappling-iron used by the besieged in repelling the attacks of the besiegers, and especially in seizing the batteringram and diverting its blows. [ARIES] (Liv. 33.3; Veget. de Re Mil. 2.25, 4.23.)
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.