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I'm not completely sure about its length. Does anyone has a source confirming or contradicting my statement (3-4 meter long)? Nik Sage 10:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know the difference between Xystophoroi and Sarissophoroi. I have about 10 books about Greek and Hellenistic warfare and not even one of them have good information about the Xyston and its use Nik Sage * Nik Sage 13:05, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Check the page for Sarissophoroi that you just linked to. It mentions some things that are not mentioned in this article.
Xyston was a general term that used to describe almost all lances. It became associated mainly with the cavalry lances and thus it was shorter than Sarissa which was only for use with infantry! Seleukosa ( talk) 17:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
My dear editors Kapnisma and Zakronian. It is vandalism to remove existing content in bad faith. There is linguistic similarity between osten, a pointed or sharpen wood stick in contemporary Macedonian and xyston, the spear of the ancient Macedonian cavalry. Keep all the views in Wikipedia and assume good faith. ( Toci ( talk) 23:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC))
I agree 100% with Zakronian on this one. Inclusion of that Macedonian word is ridiculous, for a large number of reasons (which I'm just too bored to spell out right now.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm no expert and I don't have the required sources to hand, but to the untrained eye this article looks like it's had a rather rambling off-topic essay on all manner of other topics inserted into the middle of it, conflating that weapon with the sarissa, contradicting the existing material in a poorly integrated way, and opining rather freely. I'm not sure if one of the sources added (a rather clickbaity '10 Things You Should Know' page on www.realmofhistory.com) is especially usable. Is any of this of any value, or would it be better to simply revert to the version of a couple of months ago? 109.255.211.6 ( talk) 21:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
The recorded weight, per cubic metre, of this extremely dense wood is 51.5 lbs (2.34 kg) and, per cubic inch, weighs 0.03 lb (0.014 kg).
I'm almost sure the cubic-metre measurement is wrong, as it would be extremely light, not dense. At a minimum the values are inconsistent with each other. I don't have access to the original source, but if the cubic inch values are correct then the density is 854.33 kg/m3, not 2.34 kg/m3 -- ChristopheBiocca ( talk) 19:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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I'm not completely sure about its length. Does anyone has a source confirming or contradicting my statement (3-4 meter long)? Nik Sage 10:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know the difference between Xystophoroi and Sarissophoroi. I have about 10 books about Greek and Hellenistic warfare and not even one of them have good information about the Xyston and its use Nik Sage * Nik Sage 13:05, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Check the page for Sarissophoroi that you just linked to. It mentions some things that are not mentioned in this article.
Xyston was a general term that used to describe almost all lances. It became associated mainly with the cavalry lances and thus it was shorter than Sarissa which was only for use with infantry! Seleukosa ( talk) 17:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
My dear editors Kapnisma and Zakronian. It is vandalism to remove existing content in bad faith. There is linguistic similarity between osten, a pointed or sharpen wood stick in contemporary Macedonian and xyston, the spear of the ancient Macedonian cavalry. Keep all the views in Wikipedia and assume good faith. ( Toci ( talk) 23:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC))
I agree 100% with Zakronian on this one. Inclusion of that Macedonian word is ridiculous, for a large number of reasons (which I'm just too bored to spell out right now.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm no expert and I don't have the required sources to hand, but to the untrained eye this article looks like it's had a rather rambling off-topic essay on all manner of other topics inserted into the middle of it, conflating that weapon with the sarissa, contradicting the existing material in a poorly integrated way, and opining rather freely. I'm not sure if one of the sources added (a rather clickbaity '10 Things You Should Know' page on www.realmofhistory.com) is especially usable. Is any of this of any value, or would it be better to simply revert to the version of a couple of months ago? 109.255.211.6 ( talk) 21:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
The recorded weight, per cubic metre, of this extremely dense wood is 51.5 lbs (2.34 kg) and, per cubic inch, weighs 0.03 lb (0.014 kg).
I'm almost sure the cubic-metre measurement is wrong, as it would be extremely light, not dense. At a minimum the values are inconsistent with each other. I don't have access to the original source, but if the cubic inch values are correct then the density is 854.33 kg/m3, not 2.34 kg/m3 -- ChristopheBiocca ( talk) 19:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)