scytale

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans. historical
    — But, being perſwaded that they would not hear any propoſal to that effect, he delivered each of them a ſcytale, or ſtaff on which the Lacedemonians wrote their ſecret letters, and with theſe diſpatch’d them home to the Ephori.

词形变化

scytales plural skytale alternative

词源

From Latin scytale (“cylinder used for encoding and decoding”), from Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”).
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