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ἀσπίς , ίδος, ἡ,
A.shield, “εὔκυκλος” Il.14.428, al.; “κυκλοτερής” Hdt.1.194; “ἀσπίδος κύκλος” A.Th.489; “ὀμφαλόεσσα” Il.4.448, al.; opp. Thracian πέλτη and Persian γέρρον, X.An.2.1.6, Mem.3.9.2; ἀσπίδα ῥῖψαι, ἀποβαλεῖν, Anacr.28, Ar.V.19, cf. Hdt.5.95: to estimate a victory, “ἀσπίδας ἔλαβον ὡς διακοσίας” X.HG1.2.3: metaph., “οὗτος γὰρ ἡμῖν ἀ. οὐ μικρὰ θράσους” A.Ag.1437; “τὴν ἀ. ἀποβέβληκεν τοῦ βίον” Nicostr. Com.29, cf. Lib.Or.62.47.
2. collective, body of men-at-arms, “ὀκτακισχιλίη ἀ.” Hdt.5.30, cf. E.Ph.78, X.An.1.7.10.
3. military phrases, ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδας πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι τάξασθαι to be drawn up twenty-five deep or in file, Th.4.93; “στρατιὰν τεταγμένην οὐκ ἐπ᾽ ὀλίγων ἀσπίδων” Id.7.79; “ἵστασθαι ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἀσπίδας” Ar.Fr.66; ἐπὶ μιᾶς ἀσπίδος in single line, Isoc.6.99; ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδα, παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα (opp. ἐπὶ δόρυ), on the left, towards or to the left, because the shield was on the left arm, X.Cyr.7.5.6, An.4.3.26; “παρ᾽ ἀσπίδος” A.Th.624; “ἐξ ἀσπίδος” Plb.11.23.5; but παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα, literally, beside the shield, Il. 16.400; παρ᾽ ἀ. στῆναι stand in battle, E.Med.250, Ph.1001; παρ᾽ ἀ. βεβηκέναι ib.1073; “ἐκπονεῖν” Id.Or.653, cf. Hel.734; “ἐς ἀσπίδ᾽ ἥξειν” Id.Ph.1326; ἀσπίδας συγκλείειν (cf. συγκλείω）“; ἀσπίδα τίθεσθαι” serve in the ranks, Pl.Lg.756a; but θέσθαι τὰς ἀ. pile shields, X.HG2.4.12; ἐπειδὰν ἀ. ψοφῇ when the shields ring, i.e. when two bodies of men meet in a charge, Id.An.4.3.29; ἀσπίδα ἀναδέξαι, ἆραι, as a signal, Hdt.6.115, X.HG2.1.27.
4. of a round, flat bowl, Aristopho 14.
5. boss on a door, IG4.1484.79 (Epid.).
II. asp, Egyptian cobra, Coluber haié, Hdt.4.191, Men.702, Nic.Th.158, Ph.2.570, Ael.NA10.31; a play on signff. I and II, Ar.V.23.
2. ornament in this form, OGI90.43 (Rosetta).
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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