I recalled one message from Kurii or their agents, to Samos of Port Kar, which had been written on a scytale, disguised as a girl's hair ribbon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was natural, therefore, that the ephors should entrust him with the scytale on which the names of the suspects were inscribed; and in answer to his inquiry which of the young men he was to take with him, they said: ❋ Unknown (2007)
Besieged and expelled from Byzantium by the Athenians, he did not return to Sparta; but news came that he had settled at Colonae in the Troad, and was intriguing with the barbarians, and that his stay there was for no good purpose; and the ephors, now no longer hesitating, sent him a herald and a scytale with orders to accompany the herald or be declared a public enemy. ❋ Thucydides (2005)
The scytale, a Spartan device for coding secret messages, was a staff around which was rolled a strip of leather so that its edges always met. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)
She had been the girl who had brought to the house of Samos the message of the scytale. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1980)
The girl who had served us this night, slender and blond, blue-eyed, of Earth origin, had delivered to us the scytale. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1980)
I looked at it with the awe due to a document making some state announcement, and as I was breaking the wax, I felt a dread greater than ever guilty Spartan felt at sight of the Laconian scytale. ❋ Unknown (1895)
It was natural, therefore, that the ephors should entrust him with the scytale on which the names of the suspects were inscribed; and in answer to his inquiry which of the young men he was to take with him, they said: "Go and order the eldest of the Hippagretae (11) (or commanders of horse) to let you have six or seven who chance to be there." ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)
Mary, came up to Mr. Mordacks with a bit of plaited rushes, the scytale of Nicholas the fish, who was happy enough not to know his alphabet. ❋ Unknown (1862)
The boa scytale, or spotted boa, is of a greyish colour, marked with round spots, and scarcely inferior in size to the former. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
He had not yet lived long enough to be aware that men are sometimes the Representatives of Things; that what the scytale was to the Spartan hero, a sheriff's writ often is to a Waterloo medallist: that a Bow ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Representatives of Things; that what the scytale was to the Spartan hero, ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Acquainted with his designs, the vigilant ephors despatched to him a herald with the famous scytale. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Assembly,182 as it was named; but holding informal meetings among themselves — a few senators here and a few there — they determined to send Cinadon and others of the young men to Aulon, with instructions to apprehend certain of the inhabitants and helots, whose names were written on the scytale (or scroll) .183 He had further instructions to capture another resident in Aulon; this was a woman, the fashionable beauty of the place — supposed to be the arch-corruptress of all Lacedaemonians, young and old, who visited Aulon. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lyth’s note to Mary, came up to Mr. Mordacks with a bit of plaited rushes, the scytale of Nicholas the fish, who was happy enough not to know his alphabet. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The command of the king of Ethiopia, says Niloxenus, is no more and no less than (to use Archilochus’s phrase) a broken scytale; that is, the meaning is inscrutable and cannot be found out. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A specimen apparently of the boa scytale called in Venezuela "La ❋ Unknown (1867)
Although we've intercepted the [messenger], the [text] was [written] using a scytale, thus is forever lost to us. ❋ Deius (2004)
