Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀσπιδηφόρος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσπιδηφόρος

Etym.: fe/rw

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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