a weapon used by the Scythian tribes, Hdt. 1.215, 4.5; ἀξίνας σαγάρις εἶχον Id. 7.64; by the Amazons, Aristarch. in PAmh. 2.12ii 10; by the Persians, Amazons, Mossynoeci, etc., X. An. 4.4.16, 5.4.13:—acc. to Hsch. single-edged, and joined by X. with κοπίς and μάχαιρα, Cyr. 1.2.9, 2.1.9, 4.2.22; double-edged acc. to AP 6.94 (Phil.).
The corpus record
σάγᾰρις
sagaris · ἡ
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Where it lives
- Cyropaedia 5 · 0.63/10k
- Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
- Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- σαγάρις · sagaris Herodotus, Histories 1.215.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1533)
- σαγάρις · sagaris Herodotus, Histories 1.215.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1535)
- σάγαριν · sagarin Herodotus, Histories 4.5.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4131)
- σάγαριν · sagarin Herodotus, Histories 4.70.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4498)
- σαγάρις · sagaris Herodotus, Histories 7.64.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7478)
- σάγαριν · sagarin Xenophon, Anabasis 4.4.16 (DIORISIS sentence 1725)
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Where it came from
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