scytale

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography by the ancient Spartans.

   “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.”