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σπολάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπολάς σπολάδος

Structure: σπολαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: aeolic for stolh/

Sense

  1. a leathern garment, buff-jerkin

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

  • οὗτοσ, σὺ μέντοι σπολάδα καὶ χιτῶν’ ἔχεισ, ἀπόδυθι καὶ δὸσ τῷ ποιητῇ τῷ σοφῷ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric17)
  • ἔχε τὴν σπολάδα· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric18)
  • ἀκλεὴσ δ’ ἔβα σπολὰσ ἄνευ χιτῶνοσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric 1:2)
  • καὶ ταύτησ τῆσ νυκτὸσ σφενδονῆται μὲν εἰσ διακοσίουσ ἐγένοντο, ἵπποι δὲ καὶ ἱππεῖσ ἐδοκιμάσθησαν τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ εἰσ πεντήκοντα, καὶ σπολάδεσ καὶ θώρακεσ αὐτοῖσ ἐπορίσθησαν, καὶ ἵππαρχοσ ἐπεστάθη Λύκιοσ ὁ Πολυστράτου Ἀθηναῖοσ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 22:2)
  • καὶ ἐνταῦθα ἀποθνῄσκει ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸσ Λακωνικὸσ Λεώνυμοσ τοξευθεὶσ διὰ τῆσ ἀσπίδοσ καὶ τῆσ σπολάδοσ εἰσ τὰσ πλευράσ, καὶ Βασίασ Ἀρκὰσ διαμπερὲσ τὴν κεφαλήν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 21:1)

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

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