The corpus record — Latin

sarisa

sarisa · f

A long Macedonian lance

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

sarīsa — Lewis & Short

sarīsa (-issa), ae, f., = sa/risa.

I A long Macedonian lance, Liv. 9, 19; 37, 42; 38, 7 fin.; Curt. 7, 4, 36; 9, 7, 19; Ov. M. 12, 466; 12, 479 al.; cf. Fest. pp. 145 and 251.—

II Poet., in gen., for Macedonians, Luc. 8, 298; 10, 47; cf.: denominatio est ...si quis Macedonas appellarit hoc modo: Non tam cito sarissae Graecia potiti sunt, Auct. Her. 4, 32, 43.

In the wild

sarisas Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 p32
sarisas Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.42.4
sarisas Statius, Thebais 7.269
sarisa Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.479
sarisaeque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.19.7
sarisaeque Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p19

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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