The spatha was not a new sword to the Roman army, as such, having probably been used since the 1st century AD by auxiliary ...

A Roman soldier may have lost it or it is possible ... of a ritual but may have been bent in a process by which Spanish spatha were tested for quality where they would bend the blade which would ...

A cache of four excellently preserved Roman swords have been discovered by ... in their wooden scabbards were identified as Roman spatha, or long swords, while the fourth, shorter weapon was ...