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χάλκασπις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάλκασπις χάλκασπιδος

Structure: χαλκασπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. with brasen shield, one who ran the armed footrace

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

  • φεῦγον δ’ ὄροσ ἐσ τανίφυλλον, σμερδαλέαν φωνὰν ἱεῖσαι, Τιρύνθιον ἄστυ λιποῦσαι καὶ θεοδμάτουσ ἀγυιάσ, ἤδη γὰρ ἔτοσ δέκατον θεοφιλὲσ λιπόντεσ Ἄργοσ ναῖον ἀδεισιβόαι χαλκάσπιδεσ ἡμίθεοι σὺν πολυζήλῳ βασιλεῖ. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 4:5)
  • "τούτοισ ἐπέβαλλον Μακεδόνεσ δισμύριοι, χρυσάσπιδεσ μὲν μύριοι καὶ χαλκάσπιδεσ πεντακισχίλιοι, οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι ἀργυράσπιδεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:41)
  • καὶ μάλιστ’ ἠπάτων αὐτοὺσ οἱ χαλκάσπιδεσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 69 4:2)
  • τούτοισ ἐπέβαλλον Μακεδόνεσ δισμύριοι καὶ χαλκάσπιδεσ πεντακισχίλιοι, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀργυράσπιδεσ, οἷσ ἐπηκολούθει μονομάχων ζεύγη διακόσια τετταράκοντα. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, iii. res asiae 5:2)

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

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