Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὥστε δὲ ταῦτα νομίζων, ἦν γάρ οἱ τῶν αἰχμοφόρων Γύγησ ὁ Δασκύλου ἀρεσκόμενοσ μάλιστα, τούτῳ τῷ Γύγῃ καὶ τὰ σπουδαιέστερα τῶν πρηγμάτων ὑπερετίθετο ὁ Κανδαύλησ καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸ εἶδοσ τῆσ γυναικὸσ ὑπερεπαινέων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 8 2:2)
  • εἰσὶ γὰρ Περσέων τῶν ἐμῶν αἰχμοφόρων οἳ ἐθελήσουσι Ἑλλήνων ἀνδράσι τρισὶ ὁμοῦ μάχεσθαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 103 6:2)

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

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