ξίφος [ῐ],
Aeolic dialect σκίφος (which see), εος, τό, sword, ξ. μέγα, ὀξύ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.194, 4.530, etc., compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 863, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.64, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.9, etc.; ξ. ἄμφηκες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.118, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.80; ξ. ἀργυρόηλον χάλκεον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.372; ξ. σὺν κολεῷ.. καὶ ἐϋτμήτῳ τελαμῶνι 7.303: used by 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus as equivalent of ἄορ and φάσγανον, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.48 (compare 24, 82), 10.294 (compare 321) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare μάχαιρα.
__2 power of life and death, Latin jus gladii, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.42. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II sword-shaped bone in the cuttle-fish (τευθίς), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 524b24, “PA” 654a21, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.558 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also in the ξιφίας, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 325. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III ={ξιφίον}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.13.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]