Note 66 — PART I
Reading edition
See Julie Schlemm, Wörterbuch zur Vorgeschichte (Berlin, 1908), pp. 555-7. The immediate successors of the single spear were probably the bident and trident. Owing to the refraction of light and other reasons a spear is difficult of accurate direction, but the broader surface of the trident helps to lessen the factor of error.