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ὑπασπιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπασπιστής ὑπασπιστοῦ

Structure: ὑπασπιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shield-bearer, armour-bearer, esquire

Declension

First 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

  • οὐκ ἀκριβῶσ δὲ αὐτὰ διὰ τὸν κονιορτὸν οὐδὲ πάντα ὁρῶν, ἀλλ’ ἢ τὸ στρατόπεδον ἑαυτοῦ μόνον εἰλημμένον, ἐκέλευσε Πινδάρῳ τῷ ὑπασπιστῇ προσπεσεῖν οἱ καὶ διαφθεῖραι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 15 1:2)
  • ὡσ προσεφέρετο πρὸσ τὸν Ὀνήσιλον ὁ Ἀρτύβιοσ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἵππου κατήμενοσ, ὁ Ὀνήσιλοσ κατὰ τὰ συνεθήκατο τῷ ὑπασπιστῇ παίει προσφερόμενον αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀρτύβιον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 112 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a shield-bearer

Related

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

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