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..."- P
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..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uerso posuerunt. Per operculi foramina praelongae hastae, quas sarisas uocant, ad summouendos hostes eminebant. Scintillam leuem ignis inditam..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ordines et impeditus intercursu suorum usus praelongarum hastarum—sarisas Macedones uocant—, intulere signa Romanae legiones et pila..."