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Dolabra
The
dolabra
is a
versatile
axe
used
by the people
of
Italy
since
ancient times
. The
dolabra
could
serve
as a
pickaxe
used by
miners
and
excavators
, a priest's
implement
for
ritual
religious
slaughtering
of
animals
and as an
entrenching tool
used in
Roman infantry tactics
.
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
said, "you
defeat
the enemy with a pickaxe".