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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

  • Πυθίου δενδρῶτι πέτρα Μουσῶν θ’ Ἑλικωνιάδων δώματ’, ὤ, ἥξετ’ εὐγαθεῖ κελάδῳ ἐμὰν πόλιν, ἐμὰ τείχη, Σπαρτῶν ἵνα γένοσ ἔφανε χαλκασπίδων λόχοσ, ὃσ γᾶν τέκνων τέκνοισ μεταμείβει, Θήβαισ ἱερὸν φῶσ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 32)
  • οἷσ καθισταμένοισ εἰσ τάξιν αἱ τῶν χαλκασπίδων ἐπανατέλλουσαι φάλαγγεσ ἐκ τοῦ χάρακοσ ἐνέπλησαν αὐγῆσ σιδήρου καὶ λαμπηδόνοσ χαλκοῦ τὸ πεδίον, κραυγῆσ δὲ καὶ θορύβου παρακελευομένων τὴν ὀρεινήν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 18 4:1)

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

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