Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Novacŭla

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（ξυρόν). A knife with a very sharp edge, employed for shaving the hair of the head or beard, like our razor (Petron. 103, 1; Mart.ii. 66; Suet. Cal. 23; Alciph. Plin. Ep. iii. 66, 9; cf. Cultellus; Culter; and especially Tonsor). Martial (vii. 61) applies the same name to the assassin's knife (sica).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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