σῑρομάστης,ου,ὁ, prop.
A. pit-searcher, i.e. aprobeorgauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground, Ph. Bel. 100.5 , cf. Ph. 1.135 .
II. barbed lanceof the same shape, LXX 3 Ki. 18.28 , al., J. AJ 7.2.2 .
2. use of the ς. 11.1 , Steph. in Hp. 2.255
D.