A.“διὰ σπιδέος πεδίοιο” Il.11.754, which is expld. by the authorities cited in Sch.A as meaning either vast, broad, or rugged, difficult: the former interpr. is confirmed by other forms, viz. σπίδιον “μῆκος ὁδοῦ” A.Fr.378 (which is expld. in EM271.18 by μακρόν); σπι^δόθεν , = μακρόθεν, Antim.77; σπιδνός , = πυκνός, συνεχής, πεπηγώς, and σπιδόεις , = μέλας, πλατύς, σκοτεινός, μέγας, πυκνός, Hsch.; and σπίζω , = ἐκτείνω, Sch.Ar.V.18, Eust.996.22 sq. (Ptol. Asc. and others read δι᾽ ἀσπιδέος π., expld. either as round like a shield or covered with shields.）
σπι^δής , ές, gen. έος, only in
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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