English Dictionary

scytale

/ˈsɪtəliː/

noun

(historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography in Ancient Greece.

The scytale was used by the ancient Greeks to encrypt their messages.

意味（1）

(historical) A cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which a message is written, used for cryptography in Ancient Greece.

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.