Meaning of Scytalismus | Babel Free
Definitions
Scytalismus (clubbing of wealthy Argives in 370 BC)
declension-2, historical, masculine, singular
Equivalents
English
Scytalism
Italiano
scitalismo
Examples
“De Scytalismo Argis exorto, in quo Argivi e suis mille quingentos interfecerant, certiores facti piaculum circum ecclesiant ferre jusserunt.”
When the Scytalismus broke out in Argos, in which the Argives killed fifteen hundred of their own people, they became aware of it and ordered the assembly to carry out atonement around the city.
“Argivorum Scytalismus. 22.”
The Scytalismus of the Argives. 22.
“1868, Ludwig August Dinsdorf, Διοδωρου Βιβλιοθηκη Ιστορικη, Vol. V, p. 595”
The Scytalismus among the Argives XV, 57, 3.
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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