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λαισήιον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: laisēion

Principal Part: λαισήιον λαισήιου

Structure: λαισηι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: λάσιος

Sense

  1. a, shield or target

Declension

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

  • ἔστι μοι πλοῦτος μέγας δόρυ καὶ ξίφος καὶ τὸ καλὸν λαισήιον, πρόβλημα χρωτός. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 9:3)
  • τοὶ δὲ μὴ τολμῶντ ἔχειν δόρυ καὶ ξίφος καὶ τὸ καλὸν λαισήιον, πρόβλημα χρωτός, πάντες γόνυ πεπτηῶτες ἐμὸν κυνέοντι, δεσπόταν καὶ μέγαν βασιλῆα φωνέοντες. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 10:3)
  • οὗτοι δ αὖ περὶ μὲν τῇσι κεφαλῇσι κράνεα ἐπιχώρια, λαισήια δὲ εἶχον ἀντ ἀσπίδων ὠμοβοέης πεποιημένα, καὶ κιθῶνας εἰρινέους ἐνδεδυκότες: (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 91 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a

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

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