Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sibina
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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.
SIB'INA or SIB'YNA (σιβύνη). A particular kind of hunting-spear (venabulum), but of which the peculiar properties are unknown. (Tertull. adv. Marc. i. 1. Hesych. s. v.) It was, however, used as a boar spear. (Athen. ii. 5.) Compare the illustrations s. VENATIO and VENATOR.