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Headword: Xuston
Adler number: xi,170
Translated headword: xyston
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Small spear, javelin; also the full-sized spear; also the place where athletes train.[1]
Arrian [writes]: "the insignia of the chosen army [were] eagles, kingly effigies, wreaths, all of gold, draped over silvered xysta."[2]
Greek Original:
Xuston: dorullion, akontion: kai to teleion doru: kai ho topos, entha hoi athlêtai gumnazontai. Arrianos: ta sêmeia tês epilektou stratias aetoi, eikones basileioi, stemmata, panta chrusa, anatetamena epi xustôn êrgurômenôn.
Notes:
The headword (for which see LSJ s.v.) has the same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius xi73 Theodoridis.
[1] For this last sense cf. xi 166.
[2] Arrian, Parthica fr. 98 Roos (FGrH 156 F156).
Keywords: art history; athletics; daily life; definition; historiography; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica ✝ on 21 February 2000@13:27:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied headword; augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 6 April 2001@04:56:37.
David Whitehead on 4 July 2001@08:25:01.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 4 May 2003@11:07:22.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; raised status) on 10 October 2007@09:29:29.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 20 June 2013@04:32:04.
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