10-15-2010, 07:51 AM
Quote:hello diegis
falx and sica are latin terms.
Those terms don't designate only the Dacian weapons.
The Jewish zealots were called sicarii at the rebelion in Jerusalem, 30 years before Dacians wars so the term was in use before Romans encounter the Dacians.
Salut Nina
From what i read, "sica" as a name entered in latin via greek (greeks was first who encountered the weapon), and was a term took by greeks from thracians. I read somewhere that a roman author stated that "sica" is the dacian name for such kind of dagger/short sword. Sica was a weapon of all thracians (both southern and northern ones) and was spread to other peoples too, as ilyrians, and in roman teritories, where aparently was the weapon of choice for assasins. Jews rebels liked too the weapon, it was short enough to be concealead under larger clothes, and have a devastating effect on "target". Their rebelion was anyway long after first encounters betwen romans and southern thracians, and even romans and dacians (northern thracians)
Razvan A.
