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λεύκασπις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεύκασπις λεύκασπιδος

Structure: λευκασπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. white-shielded

Declension

Third 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

  • ὁ λεύκασπισ ὄρνυται λαὸσ εὐ‐ τρεπὴσ ἐπὶ πόλιν διώκων πόδα. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode, lyric8)
  • ἑπόμενον δὲ τῷ πρώτῳ τάγματι τὸ τρίτον, καθ’ ὃ μέροσ ἡ λεύκασπισ ἦν τῶν Ταραντίνων φάλαγξ καὶ τὸ Βρεττίων καὶ τὸ Λευκανῶν συμμαχικόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 1 3:4)
  • εἶτ’ ἄλλοσ λιμὴν Λεύκασπισ καὶ ἄλλοι πλείουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 27:15)

Synonyms

  1. white-shielded

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

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