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αἰχμοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰχμοφόρος αἰχμοφόρᾱ αἰχμοφόρον

Structure: αἰχμοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. one who trails a pike, a spearman, body-guards

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλά νιν αἰχμοφόροι μύθοισί τε μειλιχίοισ καὶ βίᾳ χειρῶν κάτεχον. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 7:2)
  • ἦν γὰρ καὶ τούτων ἡγεμὼν ὁ διαφανέστατοσ, ᾧ τρεῖσ ὑπετάγησαν ἑκατόνταρχοι καὶ αὖθισ ὑπ’ ἐκείνοισ ἕτεροι τὰσ ὑποδεεστέρασ ἔχοντεσ ἀρχάσ, οἳ κατὰ πόλιν μὲν αἰχμοφόροι τε αὐτῷ παρηκολούθουν καὶ τῶν κελευομένων ὑπηρέται, κατὰ δὲ τὰσ στρατείασ πρόμαχοί τε ἦσαν καὶ παρασπισταί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 13 4:1)
  • Μασσαγέται δὲ ἐσθῆτά τε ὁμοίην τῇ Σκυθικῇ φορέουσι καὶ δίαιταν ἔχουσι, ἱππόται δὲ εἰσὶ καὶ ἄνιπποι ἀμφοτέρων γὰρ μετέχουσι καὶ τοξόται τε καὶ αἰχμοφόροι, σαγάρισ νομίζοντεσ ἔχειν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 215 2:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ αἰχμοφόροι χίλιοι καὶ οὗτοι ἐκ πάντων ἀπολελεγμένοι, τὰσ λόγχασ κάτω ἐσ τὴν γῆν τρέψαντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 40 3:2)
  • αὐτοῦ δὲ ὄπισθε αἰχμοφόροι Περσέων οἱ ἄριστοί τε καὶ γενναιότατοι χίλιοι, κατὰ νόμον τὰσ λόγχασ ἔχοντεσ, μετὰ δὲ ἵπποσ ἄλλη χιλίη ἐκ Περσέων ἀπολελεγμένη, μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἵππον ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν Περσέων ἀπολελεγμένοι μύριοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 41 2:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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