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Headword: *samyh=rai
Adler number: sigma,86
Translated headword: sampseras, samseiras
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] barbarian blades.[1] "He brings as gifts to Trajan silk cloths and sampseras, which are barbarian blades."[2]
Greek Original:
*samyh=rai: spa/qai barbarikai/. dw=ra fe/rei *traianw=| u(fa/smata shrika\ kai\ samyh/ras: ai( de/ ei)si spa/qai barbarikai/.
Notes:
[1] Persian šamšīr. See also Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 20.32 (web address 1), and generally LSJ s.v. ("a kind of sword of state").
[2] Arrian, Parthica fr.84 Roos.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2004@01:09:14.
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David Whitehead (expanded notes; cosmetics) on 25 May 2004@03:46:40.
Catharine Roth (added link) on 25 May 2004@11:45:23.
David Whitehead on 20 December 2013@05:21:53.
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