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sarissas

n. (plural of sarissa English)

Usage examples of "sarissas".

He could see Philip and his Companion Cavalry charging on the right, coming abreast now of the marching regiments of Macedonian infantry, with their shields locked, their eighteen-foot, iron-pointed sarissas aimed at the enemy ranks, the Cretan archers behind them sending volley after volley of shafts into the sky to rain down on the Phocian centre.

Macedonian war-cry went up and the regiments broke into a run, the gleaming sarissas hammering into the Phocian ranks.

The phalanx at her left shuffled closer step by step, their hedge of sarissas leveled at hernay, not at her but rather at a line of elephants formed up to her right.