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χρύσασπις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρύσασπις χρύσασπιδος

Structure: χρυσασπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. with shield of gold

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

  • Ἐτεοκλέησ δὲ Παλλάδοσ χρυσάσπιδοσ βλέψασ πρὸσ οἶκον ηὔξατ’· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric13)
  • "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)
  • μᾶτερ ἐμά, τὸ τεόν, χρύσασπι Θήβα, πρᾶγμα καὶ ἀσχολίασ ὑπέρτερον θήσομαι. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 1:1)
  • χρυσάσπιδι Ῥώμῃ, ἥ σ1’ Ὕπατον τεῦξεν, καὶ τρισέπαρχον ὁρᾷ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6973)

Synonyms

  1. with shield of gold

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

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