Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ξίφος

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A.sword, ξ. μέγα, ὀξύ, Il.1.194, 4.530, etc., cf. A.Pr.863, Hdt.3.64, X.An.2.2.9, etc. ; “ξ. ἄμφηκες” Il.21.118, Od.16.80 ; “ξ. ἀργυρόηλον χάλκεον” Il.19.372 ; “ξ. σὺν κολεῷ . . καὶ ἐϋτμήτῳ τελαμῶνι” 7.303 : used by Hom. as equivalent of ἄορ and φάσγανον, Od.11.48 (cf. 24, 82), 10.294 (cf. 321) ; cf. μάχαιρα.

2. power of life and death, Lat. jus gladii, Philostr.VA4.42.

II. sword-shaped bone in the cuttle-fish (τευθίς), Arist.HA524b24, PA 654a21, Opp.H.3.558 ; also in the ξιφίας, Arist.Fr.325.

III. = ξιφίον, Thphr.HP7.13.1.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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