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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

  • στάσονται δ’ ἐπὶ περγάμων Τροίασ ἀμφί τε τείχη Τρῶεσ, ὅταν χάλκασπισ Ἄρησ πόντιοσ εὐπρῴροιο πλάτασ εἰρεσίᾳ πελάζῃ Σιμουντίοισ ὀχετοῖσ, τὰν τῶν ἐν αἰθέρι δισσῶν Διοσκούρων Ἑλέναν ἐκ Πριάμου κομίσαι θέλων ἐσ γᾶν Ἑλλάδα δοριπόνοισ ἀσπίσι καὶ λόγχαισ Ἀχαιῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • φλέγεται δὲ ἰοπλόκοισι Μοίσαισ, μάτρωί̈ θ’ ὁμωνύμῳ δέδωκε κοινὸν θάλοσ, χάλκασπισ ᾧ πότμον μὲν Ἄρησ ἔμιξεν, τιμὰ δ’ ἀγαθοῖσιν ἀντίκειται. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 7 8:1)
  • ὅσ νιν ποντοπόρῳ δούρατι, πλήθει πολλῶν μηνῶν, πατρίαν ἄγει πρὸσ αὐλὰν Μαλιάδων νυμφᾶν Σπερχειοῦ τε παρ’ ὄχθασ, ἵν’ ὁ χάλκασπισ ἀνὴρ θεοῖσ πλάθει πατρὸσ θείῳ πυρὶ παμφαήσ, Οἴτασ ὑπὲρ ὄχθων. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 22)

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

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