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ῥίψασπις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥίψασπις ῥίψασπιδος

Structure: ῥιψασπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. throwing away his shield in battle, a recreant

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

  • ταῦτα δ’ ἡμᾶσ τοὺσ ἀγροίκουσ δρῶσι, τοὺσ δ’ ἐξ ἄστεωσ ἧττον, οἱ θεοῖσιν οὗτοι κἀνδράσιν ῥιψάσπιδεσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, antepirrheme10)
  • ῥίψασπισ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἐν πᾶσιν ὀνομάζοιτ’ ἂν δικαίωσ, ἀποβολεὺσ δὲ ὅπλων. (Plato, Laws, book 12 22:3)
  • οὐχ ὁμοίωσ γὰρ ὅ τε ἀφαιρεθεὶσ μετ’ εἰκυίασ βίασ γίγνοιτ’ ἂν ῥίψασπισ ὅ τε ἀφεὶσ ἑκών, διαφέρει δὲ ὅλον που καὶ τὸ πᾶν. (Plato, Laws, book 12 23:1)
  • ἦν γὰρ ἀνδρὶ ῥιψάσπιδι τρόπον τινὰ πρέπουσα πασῶν μάλιστα ἡ ’κείνῃ τῇ γενέσει ἐναντία γένεσισ, εἰσ γυναῖκα ἐξ ἀνδρὸσ μεταβαλοῦσα, τιμωρία τούτῳ γενομένη. (Plato, Laws, book 12 24:4)

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

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