sarissa
sarisae, hastae Macedonum
~a, -e, i.gaveloc
sarissa,a materas
~a,a jakke of defense
sărissa ou sărīsa, æ, f. , sarisse, longue pique macédonienne : Liv. 9, 19, etc. ; Curt. 7, 4, 36 || Sarisæ, les Macédoniens : Luc. 8, 298.
Elvetiorum fortissimæ,
stipatissimæque phalanges nostri erunt exercitus mœnia, et longis illis, quarum Turcæ
nullam habent experientiam, interfectis (leg. intersertis) Sarissis,
etc. Odo in Carm. de Varia fortuna Ernesti Ducis Bavar. apud eumdem Marten. tom.
3. col. 365 :
Et dacas simile instructi fabricare Sarissas
Conveniunt.
Notum est Macedonum propriam fuisse Sarissam : unde Gloss. Lat. Gr. :
Et omnes hastati et Sarissati et curiales eum (Ducem Britanniæ)
concomitabantur.SARISSA
SARISSA[EXERCITUSp. 488 a. ]
Sarissa
(σάρισσα). A long lance used by the Macedonian hoplites for thrusting, and by the light cavalry. In the time of Philip and Alexander the Great it was eighteen feet in length, but was afterwards reduced to fourteen feet. Because of this weapon, the light cavalry were called σαρισσοφόροι. See Livy, ix. 19; xxxviii. 7; Polyb. xviii. 12; and the articles arma; exercitus; phalanx.