I wasn't surprised to learn that a large, heavy, straight sword of similar length and size to the Khanda sword called a spatha was used by Roman cavalry, and it relatively quickly replaced the gladius, especially among the officer class like Centurions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was a long, cutting sword, of the sort called a spatha among the wagons. ❋ Norman, John (1985)
Galba drew his sword, the spatha rasping as it came out of its scabbard, and put its point under her chin. ❋ Dietrich, William (2004)
With their hasta spear, three light throwing javelins, and long spatha sword, the cavalry could alternately break the barbarian line, harass it, or cut and chop in a general melee. ❋ Dietrich, William (2004)
In preparation for this moment he'd donned his parade uniform: slave-polished chain mail atop a quilted tunic, golden neck torque and armbands of valor, a silver shoal of phalarae medals on his chest, and the long spatha sword of the Petriana cavalry, its blade coated with olive oil and its pommel gleaming where his thumb rubbed its gold. ❋ Dietrich, William (2004)
This plant has narrow pointed leaves, four inches long, and produces at the ends of the shoots a red spatha, enclosing a cylindrical spadix of yellow flowers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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He had a short, two-edged sword, not as good as a gladius, but better than a spatha; a battle-axe that had seen better days; and a lance with a larger-than-usual head and an extra-heavy shaft. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)
Flowers are produced on slender scapes, 3in. to 4in. long, singly, from the long membranous spatha; they are 1¼in. across the expanded perianth, and about the same length; the six divisions are rather longer than the tube, and of a pale yellow or lemon colour; the crown or nectary is campanulate, longer than the petal-like divisions, lobed, fringed, and of a deep yellow colour. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
[*] The pilum was the Roman pike, and the spatha the short single-edged Roman sword. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Down, pikes! '' he cried, and as the trumpet peal rose loud and clear, fresh legionaries came hurrying through the Damascus arch, and the pilum* and spatha of Rome bore back the shields and lances of Palmyra. ❋ Unknown (1891)
IXIA planifolia, caule multifloro spatha brevissima. ❋ William Curtis (1772)
AMARYLLIS _Atamasco_ spatha bifida acuta, flore pedicellato, corolla campanulata subæquali erecta basi breve tubulosa, staminibus declinatis æqualibus. ❋ William Curtis (1772)
AMARYLLIS _Atamasco_ spatha uniflora, corolla æquali, pistillo declinato. ❋ William Curtis (1772)
NARCISSUS _biflorus_ spatha biflor, nectario brevissimo scarioso. ❋ William Curtis (1772)
NARCISSUS _poeticus_ spatha uniflora, nectario rotato brevissimo scarioso crenulato. ❋ William Curtis (1772)
A« foliis Solitariis pedatis: spatha basi ventricosS, mox contracta, dein compresso-dilatata, postea ❋ Richard Anthony Salisbury (1796)
$ ♦ A. foliis simplicibus disco coccineis: spatha ventri - cosa, infra medium coarctata; spadice spath* breviore, basi stipttato, - claviformi, supra callos toto aritheriiferO. ❋ Richard Anthony Salisbury (1796)
