In the vorg cage room where Ricasso's lab is Quillon is hard at work preparing the serum for dilution and he gets surprised by Spatha who has a gun aimed at Quillon's head.
22.
The Blu ina sword is a rare example of an " Alamannic type " gold-hilted spatha found in a number of graves of very high-ranking warriors of the second half of the 5th century.
23.
By 460, Roman legionaries did not wear scarlet cloaks, nor did they carry the semi-circular shields of ancient times, and the short stabbing sword known as the gladius had been replaced, mostly by the spatha.
24.
It is possible that the name " Spata " is derived from the Latin and Greek " spatha " meaning " long sword ", which is found in Albanian as " shpat?" meaning " sword ".
25.
During the Allied withdrawal form the Aegean Sea in 1944, " Teazer " was responsible for the sinking of the transport ship KT " Erpel " and the submarine chaser " UJ2171 " off Cape Spatha.
26.
Among other finds were amber artifacts from the Baltic, a unique roaster, a spatha labelled by a certain Ulfbert from the Rhine, and a chess piece with an enigmatic Runic inscription ( " illustrated, to the right " ).
27.
The Romans could have borrowed this weapon from the auxiliaries, probably Germanic mercenaries, but the name does not support this origin . " Spatha " was certainly not a Germanic name, nor is there any indication anywhere what its Germanic name was.
28.
The Viking Age or Merovingian sword ( more specifically, the Frankish production of swords in the 6th to 7th century, itself derived from the Roman spatha ) and during the 11th to 12th century in turn gave rise to the knightly sword of the Romanesque period.
29.
The " spatha " of literature appears in the Roman Empire in the first century CE as a weapon used by presumably Germanic auxiliaries and gradually became a standard heavy infantry weapon, relegating the " gladius " to use as a light infantry weapon.
30.
There are a plenitude of Germanic names, such as Old English " sweord ", " bill ", and so on, but no evidence to tie any name to the " spatha ", which was never used in Germanic languages as the name of a sword.
