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A kind of geometrical [term].
Eunapius [writes]: "the diametrically opposed shafts making a kind of cross at the tongue with the conjunction of the counter-posed arrowheads."[1]
But[2] Dinarchus calls the residue from something that has been fairly measured out a "diametron."[3]

*dia/metros: gewmetriko/n ti ei)=dos. *eu)na/pios: w(s kata/ tinas diame/trous kerai/as kexiw=sqai th\n glw=ttan tai=s a)ntitu/pois sumbolai=s tw=n a)ki/dwn. *dei/narxos de\ dia/metron le/gei to\ e)llei=pon a)po\ tou= dikai/ws metrhqe/ntos.

[1] Eunapius fr. 100 FHG (= 272.19-20 Dindorf); but these words also appear in Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 2.6.2, as de Boor pointed out. Theophylact's story concerns a Roman soldier found still alive, but with gruesome wounds, at the Battle of Solachon (cf. alpha 141 note) in 586; cf. de Boor (79), Whitby (50), and cross-references to related entries at alpha 141.
[2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v.
[3] Dinarchus fr. XIX.3 Conomis.

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung I." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 21 (1912) 418 n.2
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)

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