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siromastes · ὁ
pit-searcher
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σῑρομάστης · siromastēs — LSJ
pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground, Ph. Bel. 100.5, cf. Ph. 1.135.
barbed lance of the same shape, LXX 3 Ki. 18.28, al., J. AJ 7.2.2.
use of the σ. II.1, Steph. in Hp. 2.255 D.
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