Scythes

Pompey, therefore, taking his leave of Cornelia, who was already lamenting his death before it came, bade two centurions, with Philip, one of his freedmen, and a slave called Scythes, go on board the boat before him.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Accordingly, after embracing Cornelia who was anticipating and bewailing his fate, he ordered two centurions to step into the boat before him, and Philippus one of his freedmen and a slave called Scythes, and while Achillas was offering him his hand out of the boat, he turned round to his wife and son and repeated the iambics of Sophocles,

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Scythes, power tools, scissors and numerous other instruments of pain release the flow of blood while we are privy to decapitations, shootings, a throat slitting and various methods of torture.

Hostel: Part 2 (2007) 2010

When the boys grew up, their mother named the eldest Agathyrsus, the next Gelonus, and the youngest Scythes, and carried out the instructions which she remembered Heracles had given her.

Lapham's Quarterly: Ancient Histories 2008

This was the only thing the mother of Scythes did for him.

Lapham's Quarterly: Ancient Histories 2008

Two of the young men, Agathyrsus and Gelonus, failed to accomplish the task assigned them and were therefore banished from the country by their mother; but the youngest brother, Scythes, succeeded and was allowed to remain.

Lapham's Quarterly: Ancient Histories 2008

In this way Scythes, the son of Heracles, became father of the line of Scythian kings; and to this day the Scythians wear belts with little cups attached, in memory of the belt of their ancestor Heracles.

Lapham's Quarterly: Ancient Histories 2008

Among these Agesilaus appointed Xenocles and another to the command of the cavalry, Scythes to that of the heavy infantry of the enfranchised,200 Herippidas to that of the Cyreians, and Migdon to that of the contingents from the states.

Hellenica 2007

Delas, another Idaean, though Hesiod calls him Scythes 67.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Scythes are still sold worldwide in their classic 19th-century form, with a curved bentwood snath handle.

Humanity's Unseen Weapons Edward Tenner 2006