Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparthes
Literary usage of Sparthes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Irish Histories: The Works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer, and by Edmund Spenser, Edmund Campion, Meredith Hanmer (1809)
"... how that the Englishmen not being able to stand in fight, turned backe to
backe, with sparthes and two handed swords, untill the last man was slaine. ..."
2. Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of by George Burnett (1813)
"They fight urt- armed, naked in body; natheless 1 with two darts and spears and
with broad sparthes*, they fight with one hand. These men forsake tilling of ..."
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