cuspis

Prædicta verò prouincia Cassaria cingitur mari in tribus lateribus: ad Occidentem scilicet, vbi est Kersoua ciuitas Clementis, ad meridiem vbi est ciuitas Soldaia, ad quam applicuimus, quæ est cuspis prouinciæ, et ad Orientem Maricandis, vbi est ciuitas Materta, et orificium Tanais.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Pr鎑icta ver� prouincia Cassaria cingitur mari in tribus lateribus: ad Occidentem scilicet, vbi est Kersoua ciuitas Clementis, ad meridiem vbi est ciuitas Soldaia, ad quam applicuimus, qu� est cuspis prouinci�, et ad Orientem Maricandis, vbi est ciuitas Materta, et orificium Tanais.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Professor Tarrant points out to me that the _cuspis_ does not seem to be attributed to Jupiter, no doubt because the _fulmen_ was too firmly established as his weapon.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

The _cuspis_ is attributed to Mars at _Am_ I i 11, to Neptune at _Met_ XII 580, and to Athena at _Fast_ VI 655.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

‘Payn puffe, and pety-pettys, and cuspis and doucettis,’ are mentioned among the last dishes of

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

But the cusp, cuspis, spiny or spearlike point of a thirteenth century illumination, is not in the least necessary to transfix the parchment.

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

The Greeks called it [Greek: harpê], and the Romans _cuspis_.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

et puro cornu gemmea cuspis hiat; ingentis oculos credas geminos hyacinthos,

The Phoenix 1912