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- Harpax abstract "The harpax or harpago was a Roman catapult-shot grapnel created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa for use against Sextus Pompey during the naval battles of the Sicilian revolt.The harpax allowed an enemy vessel to be harpooned and then winched alongside for boarding. It was first deployed at the Battle of Naulochus in 36 BC. Appian explains the device \"called the 'grip', [was] a piece of wood, five cubits long bound with iron and having rings at the extremities. To one of these rings was attached the grip itself, an iron claw, to the other numerous ropes, which drew it by machine power after it had been thrown by a catapult and had seized the enemy's ships.\"The harpax had a distinct advantage over the traditional naval boarding device, the corvus, in that it was much lighter. The corvus boarding bridge is estimated to have weighed a ton. The harpax could be thrown long distances due its light weight. It was discharged by a ballista as if it were a heavy dart. Furthermore, the harpax was composed of iron bands that could not be cut, and the ropes could not be cut due to the length of the iron grapple. Appian notes \"As this apparatus had never been known before, the enemy had not provided themselves with scythe-mounted poles.\"The casualty totals provide a broad picture of the tool's effectiveness: Sextus lost 180 of a total force of 300 warships - 28 by ramming and 155 by capture and by fire.".
- Harpax thumbnail Harpax_english.jpg?width=300.
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- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Rome.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Appian.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Ballista.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Naulochus.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Category:Navy_of_ancient_Rome.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Corvus_(boarding_device).
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Grappling_hook.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Harpe.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Sextus_Pompey.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink Sicilian_revolt.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLink File:Harpax_english.jpg.
- Harpax wikiPageWikiLinkText "Harpax".
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- Harpax subject Category:Navy_of_ancient_Rome.
- Harpax hypernym Grapnel.
- Harpax comment "The harpax or harpago was a Roman catapult-shot grapnel created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa for use against Sextus Pompey during the naval battles of the Sicilian revolt.The harpax allowed an enemy vessel to be harpooned and then winched alongside for boarding. It was first deployed at the Battle of Naulochus in 36 BC. Appian explains the device \"called the 'grip', [was] a piece of wood, five cubits long bound with iron and having rings at the extremities.".
- Harpax label "Harpax".
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- Harpax sameAs הרפקס.
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- Harpax sameAs Гарпаг_(оружие).
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- Harpax wasDerivedFrom Harpax?oldid=645323476.
- Harpax depiction Harpax_english.jpg.
- Harpax isPrimaryTopicOf Harpax.