Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sarissophorus

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. 

SARISSOPH'ORUS (σαρισσοφόρος). Armed with the sarissa; a title given to the soldiers who formed the Macedonian phalanx, to whom that weapon was peculiar. Liv. xxxvi. 18. Curt. iv. 15. Polyb. xii. 20. 2.

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