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Headword: Σάγαρις
Adler number: sigma,15
Translated headword: sagaris
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

A cutter, or an axe.
It is also called σάγαρι without the "s."
Xenophon [writes]: "[Democrates] came leading a man seized by force, who had a Persian bow and a quiver and a sagaris, such as the Amazons have."

Greek Original:

Σάγαρις: κοπίς, ἢ πέλεκυς. λέγεται καὶ σάγαρι χωρὶς τοῦ ς. Ξενοφῶν: ὁ δὲ ἄνδρα συλλαβὼν ἧκεν ἄγων ἔχοντα τόξον Περσικὸν καὶ φαρέτραν καὶ σάγαριν, οἷάν περ αἱ Ἀμαζόνες ἔχουσι.

Notes:

First attested in Herodotus 1.215.1 (a gloss on which provides the material here), on the Massagetai. The form σάγαρις occurs most often in Xenophon; the passage quoted is Anabasis 4.4.16.
See also sigma 16.

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Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 11 November 2002@12:57:40.
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