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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λεύκασπις λευκάσπιδε λευκάσπιδες
Genitive λευκάσπιδος λευκασπίδοιν λευκασπίδων
Dative λευκάσπιδι λευκασπίδοιν λευκάσπισιν*
Accusative λευκάσπιδα λευκάσπιδε λευκάσπιδας
Vocative λεύκασπι λευκάσπιδε λευκάσπιδες

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

  • "ψάλλω δ’ εἴκοσι χορδαῖσι μάγαδιν ἔχων, ὦ Λεύκασπι, σὺ δ’ ἡβᾷσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 353)
  • ψάλλω δ’ εἴκοσι χορδαῖσι μάγαδιν ἔχων, ὦ Λεύκασπι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 372)
  • 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)
  • καὶ ἀνταναβιβάσαντεσ εἰσ τὰ παρ’ ἑαυτοῖσ μνημεῖα καὶ τύρσεισ τινὰσ καθορῶσι παρατεταγμένουσ ᾗ αὐτοῖσ ἦν ἡ ὁδὸσ Κᾶράσ τε λευκάσπιδασ καὶ τὸ Περσικὸν ὅσον ἐτύγχανε παρὸν στράτευμα καὶ τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ὅσον εἶχεν ἑκάτεροσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ ἱππικὸν μάλα πολύ, τὸ μὲν Τισσαφέρνουσ ἐπὶ τῷ δεξιῷ κέρατι, τὸ δὲ Φαρναβάζου ἐπὶ τῷ εὐωνύμῳ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 20:1)
  • εἶτ’ ἄλλοσ λιμὴν Λεύκασπισ καὶ ἄλλοι πλείουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 27:15)

Synonyms

  1. white-shielded

Similar forms

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

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