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, interfectisOdo in Carm. de Varia fortuna Ernesti Ducis Bavar. apud eumdem Marten. tom. 3. col. 365 :(leg. intersertis) Sarissis, etc.
Notum est Macedonum propriam fuisse Sarissam : unde Gloss. Lat. Gr. :Et dacas simile instructi fabricare Sarissas Conveniunt.
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.