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These objects were made with a foot called a sauroter that could be used to stabilize them. A statue of a man with one of these objects influenced the Augustus of Prima Porta by setting a cultural ideal for masculine proportions developed by its sculptor Polykleitos. During the Roman Republic, these objects became exclusive to the Greek-style triarii despite providing the etymology of the hastati. A form of these objects called a dory was typically used alongside an aspis or (*) hoplon. Philip II introduced a much larger style of these objects called (10[1])a sarissa. Roman legionaries would throw one of these weapons called a pilum. For 10 points, name these objects, the main weapons used alongside a shield in a phalanx by Greek hoplites. ■END■

ANSWER: spear [accept dory until read; accept hastae or hasta until hastati is read; accept pilum until read; accept javelin; accept pike]
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