Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λογχοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λογχοφόρος λογχοφόρον

Structure: λογχοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. spear-bearing, a spear-man, pike-man

Examples

  • ἅμα δὲ τῷ φωτὶ συνιδὼν τοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ ἄκροισ ἀντικαθημένουσ τοῖσ λογχοφόροισ ἐπαπέστειλέ τινασ τῶν Ἰβήρων, οἳ καὶ συμμίξαντεσ κατέβαλον μὲν τῶν Ῥωμαίων εἰσ χιλίουσ, ῥᾳδίωσ δὲ τοὺσ παρὰ σφῶν εὐζώνουσ ἐκδεξάμενοι κατεβίβασαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 94 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. spear-bearing

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

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