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Headword:
*)aspidhfo/roi
Adler number: alpha,4211
Translated headword: shield-bearers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] warriors.[1] Also [sc. attested is the variant]
a)spidiw/ths ["shield-man"], [meaning] one who manoeuvres a shield.[2] Also [sc. attested is]
a)spido/n ["shield-wise"], an adverb,[3] [meaning] after the manner of
sunaspismo/s ["shield by shield"]. Also [sc. attested is]
a)spidophgei=on ["shield-maker's shop"], [the place] in which the shield is forged.[4]
Which weapon is a little
scutum.[5]
Also the military formation [sc. of that name].[6]
Aristophanes [writes]: "all of you stand in order in three shields."[7]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)spisth=res ["shield-men"], [meaning] guards.
Sophocles [writes]: "but, shield-men men [and] people of the sea, on you and on that man I lay this obligation."[8]
*)aspidhfo/roi: oi( polemistai/. kai\ *)aspidiw/ths, o( a)spi/da kinw=n. kai\ *)aspido/n, e)pi/rrhma, di/khn sunaspismou=. kai\ *)aspidophgei=on, e)n w(=| h( a)spi\s ph/gnutai. o(/per e)sti\n o(/plon skouta/rion. kai\ h( ta/cis. *)aristofa/nhs: i(/stasq' e)fech=s pa/ntes e)pi\ trei=s a)spi/das. kai\ *)aspisth=res, fulakth=res. *sofoklh=s: a)ll' a)/ndres a)spisth=res ei)na/lios lew\s, u(mi=n t' e)kei/nw| th/nd' e)piskh/ptw xa/rin.
Notes:
[1] Similar glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (3396). The headword, nominative plural of this noun, is perhaps quoted from somewhere in this form; alternatively, perhaps generated by one of the oblique-case instances in Attic tragedy (such as
Euripides,
Bacchae 781).
[2] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (3389).
[3] Attested only in lexicography (and not in LSJ).
[4] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (3357).
[5] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The word
skouta and the diminutive seen in the gloss,
skoutarion, refer to the Latin "scutum", a oblong shield adopted by Roman infantrymen instead of the round buckler style. See Lewis and Short s.v.
[6] See generally LSJ s.v. aspis, 3.
[7]
Aristophanes fr. 66 Kock (72 K.-A.), cf.
Lysistrata 282.
[8]
Sophocles,
Ajax 565-566 (web address 1 -- there is a textual alternative for "on that man"); cf.
epsilon 2579.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 January 2002@04:33:11.
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