Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagitta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SAGIT'TA (τόξευμα, ὀῖστὸς, ἰός). An arrow; amongst the Greeks and Romans usually made with a plain bronze head, without barbs, as exhibited by the annexed specimen (Sagitta/1.1), from an original found in Attica.

2. Sagitta hamata or adunca. An arrow with a barbed head, like the annexed example (Sagitta/2.1), from a terra-cotta lamp; the use of which is more especially characteristic of the Asiatics and northern nations. Ov. Trist. iii. 10. 63.

3. A lancet or phleme for bleeding cattle (Veg. Vet. i. 22. 4. Ib. 25. 5.); evidently so termed from being formed in the same shape as the Greek and Roman arrow-head, as shown by the annexed specimen (Sagitta/3.1) from an original of bronze, found in a surgeon's house at Pompeii.

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  Sagitta/1.1
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  Sagitta/2.1
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  Sagitta/3.1