ξιφίας
From LSJ
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ, (ξίφος)
A sword fish, Arist.HA505a18, Fr.325,Archestr. Fr.40; cf. σκιφίας. II a kind of comet (from the shape), Plin.HN 2.89.
German (Pape)
[Seite 280] ὁ, alles Schwertförmige; – a) der Schwertfisch, Archestrat. bei Ath. VII, 314 e; Pol. 34, 2, 15. – b) nach Plin. 2, 25, 23 eine Art der Kometen.
