Daggers
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daggers · dagger
in the texts
Hecuba
Weapons the Trojan women conceal in their clothing and use to stab Polymestor's children to death inside the tent.
—in an instant snatching daggers from somewhere in their dress they stab my children;
Cyropaedia
Weapons used by Panthea and her eunuchs in their self-killing.
Panthea then drew out a dagger, with which she had provided herself long before, and plunged it into her heart, and laying her head upon her husband’s bosom she breathed her last.
And when the eunuchs, three in number, beheld what had occurred, they also, standing in the spot where she had ordered them to stand, drew their daggers and drove them into their own breasts.