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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

  • σιωπῶντοσ δὲ τοῦ Κλείτου καὶ δακρύοντοσ, αὖθισ ἐπισπασάμενοσ τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν Δάρδανον ἰδίᾳ τινὰσ αὐτῷ προσέφερε λόγουσ. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 52 1:2)
  • ὁ δὲ φήσασ οὐδένα δεινὸν οὕτωσ ἔσεσθαι θάνατον ὃν φοβηθεὶσ Πόπλιοσ ἀπολείψει τοὺσ ἀπολλυμένουσ δι’ αὑτόν, ἐκείνουσ μὲν ἐκέλευσε σῴζεσθαι καὶ δεξιωσάμενοσ ἀπέλυσεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ τῇ χειρὶ χρήσασθαι μὴ δυνάμενοσ διελήλατο γὰρ βέλει, τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν ἐκέλευσε πατάξαι τῷ ξίφει, παρασχὼν τὸ πλευρόν. (Plutarch, chapter 25 11:2)
  • κἀκεῖνοσ ὡσ ἔγνω κατακλειόμενον αὑτὸν εἰσ δυσχωρίασ, ἔνθα οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν ἀνὰ κράτοσ ἐλάσαι τὸν ἵππον, καθάλλεταί τε καὶ στὰσ ἐπὶ τὸν ὄχθον, ἵνα μὴ κυκλωθείη πρὸσ αὐτῶν, τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν μόνον ἔχων τοὺσ ἐπιόντασ ὑπέμεινεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 26 5:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀκονιτί γ’ ἂν ἐδόκουν ἀποθανεῖν Σίκκιον, ἄνδρα καὶ ῥώμην καὶ ψυχὴν ἀνυπόστατον, οὐδὲ τὸν ὑπασπιστήν, οὐδὲ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ τοὺσ σὺν αὐτῷ πεσόντασ ἄλλωσ τε καὶ ἐκ χειρὸσ γενομένησ τῆσ μάχησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 27 6:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν προσκαλεσάμενοσ ἐπηρώτησεν, εἰ διασέσωκε τὴν ἀσπίδα. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 87 6:1)

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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