[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. 'Spear-carriers' often has the more specific sense of bodyguards, as, seemingly, in the quotation which follows (and cf. generally delta 1403).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 4.10.7, on Chosroes II's entry into the eastern Roman frontier garrison at Circesium (early March 590); cf. de Boor (168) and Whitby (117). Circesium (present-day al-Busayrah, in eastern Syria) was located at the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur Rivers (Barrington Atlas map 91 grid B2). On Chosroes see chi 418 note.