javelin, mercenaries
a sort of javelin, LXX Jo. 8.18, Ju. 9.7, Plb. 6.39.3, 18.18.4, PTeb. 230 (ii B. C.), D.S. 13.57:—hence prob. Celtic pr. n. Γαισάται or -οι, οἱ, expld. by Plb. as mercenaries, 2.22.1. (Iberian word acc. to Ath. 6.273f.)
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γαῖσος
gaisos · ὁ
javelin, mercenaries
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