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ἀσπιδηφόρος?

Adjective; Transliteration: aspidēphoros

Principal Part: ἀσπιδηφόρος

Etym.: φέρω

Sense

  1. shield-bearing

Examples

  • τούτων θεοῖσι χρὴ πολύμνηστον χάριν τίνειν, ἐπείπερ καὶ πάγας ὑπερκότους ἐφραξάμεσθα καὶ γυναικὸς οὕνεκα πόλιν διημάθυνεν Ἀργεῖον δάκος, ἵππου νεοσσός, ἀσπιδηφόρος λεώς, πήδημ ὀρούσας ἀμφὶ Πλειάδων δύσιν: (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. shield-bearing

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

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