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Headword: *seiroma/sths
Adler number: sigma,286
Translated headword: seiromast, siromast
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of javelin, a lance.
Greek Original:
*seiroma/sths: ei)=dos a)konti/ou, lo/gxh.
Notes:
See LSJ s.v. siroma/sths: "prop. pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground"; also "barbed lance of the same shape" (mentioned in the Septuagint and by Josephus).
See also sigma 478.
Keywords: definition; economics; food; historiography; military affairs; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2002@07:19:53.
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Elizabeth Vandiver (Cosmetics; set status) on 5 December 2004@00:49:24.
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