Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Machaerophorus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MACHAEROPH'ORUS (μαχαιρόφορος). Armed with the hunting-knife (machaera), as characteristic of foreign nations (Cic. Q. Fr. ii. 10.); the Egyptians (Herod. ix. 32.); Persians (Aesch. Pers. 56.); Thracians, Thucyd. ii. 96.