sarisa
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sarisa, sarisae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
Macedonian lance;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...colunt uestigia campi; fraxineas Macetum uibrant de more sarisas saeuaque difficiles excludere uulnera peltas. ecce autem clamore ruunt..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...erat, variabant tempora cani. qui clipeo galeaque Macedoniaque sarisa conspicuus faciemque obversus in agmen utrumque armaque concussit certumque..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uerso posuerunt. Per operculi foramina praelongae hastae, quas sarisas uocant, ad summouendos hostes eminebant. Scintillam leuem ignis inditam..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ordines et impeditus intercursu suorum usus praelongarum hastarum—sarisas Macedones uocant—, intulere signa Romanae legiones et pila..."