σῑρομάστης, ου, ὁ,
properly pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 100.5, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.135. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II barbed lance of the same shape, [[ LXX.1Ki.18.28, +others, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 7.2.2. ] LXX+1st c.AD+]
__II.2 use of the ς[[. 11.1, 7th c.AD: Stephanus Medicus “in Hp.” 2.255 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+]