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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

  • τοῦ δὲ Ἀντιγόνου Τεγέαν μὲν παραλαβόντοσ, Ὀρχομενὸν δὲ καὶ Μαντίνειαν διαρπάσαντοσ, εἰσ αὐτὴν τὴν Λακωνικὴν συνεσταλμένοσ ὁ Κλεομένησ τῶν μὲν εἱλώτων τοὺσ πέντε μνᾶσ Ἀττικὰσ καταβαλόντασ ἐλευθέρουσ ἐποίει καὶ τάλαντα πεντακόσια συνέλεξε, δισχιλίουσ δὲ προσκαθοπλίσασ Μακεδονικῶσ ἀντίταγμα τοῖσ παρ’ Ἀντιγόνου λευκάσπισιν, ἔργον ἐπὶ νοῦν βάλλεται μέγα καὶ πᾶσιν ἀπροσδόκητον. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 23 1:1)

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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