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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

  • Ἔτι ἐν Βαβυλῶνι κεῖμαι τριακοστὴν ταύτην ἡμέραν, ὑπισχνεῖται δὲ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ ὑπασπιστήσ, ἤν ποτε ἀγάγῃ σχολὴν ἀπὸ τῶν θορύβων τῶν ἐν ποσίν, ἐσ Αἴγυπτον ἀπαγαγὼν θάψειν ἐκεῖ, ὡσ γενοίμην εἷσ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων θεῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)
  • ἀνδρὶ γὰρ μεγάλῳ καὶ ῥωμαλέῳ φεύγοντι παρ’ αὑτόν ἐπιβαλὼν τὴν χεῖρα μένειν ἐκέλευσε καί στρέφεσθαι πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ὁ δὲ μεστὸσ ὢν ταραχῆσ παρὰ τὸ δεινόν ἐπήρατο τὴν μάχαιραν ὡσ καθιξόμενοσ, φθάνει δὲ ὁ τοῦ Καίσαροσ ὑπασπιστὴσ ἀποκόψασ αὐτοῦ τὸν ὦμον. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 39 4:2)
  • θεράπων δέ τισ ὑπασπιστὴσ τοῦ Σικκίου τὰ πολεμικὰ ἀγαθὸσ εἰκάσασ τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν μηνυτὴσ γίνεται τῷ δεσπότῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 26 4:1)
  • αὐτόσ τε γὰρ ὁ Σίκκιοσ πολλὰσ εἶχε πληγὰσ τὰσ μὲν ὑπὸ χερμάδων, τὰσ δ’ ὑπὸ σαυνίων, τὰσ δ’ ὑπὸ μαχαιρῶν, καὶ ὁ ὑπασπιστήσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 27 7:2)
  • καὶ ἑνὸσ μὲν κατέαξαν τὸ σκέλοσ, Ξενοφῶντα δὲ ὁ ὑπασπιστὴσ ἔχων τὴν ἀσπίδα ἀπέλιπεν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 21:3)

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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