Παρασπιστής

paraspist, shield-bearer

Translated by David Whitehead13 Apr 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

5 words

[Meaning] an infantryman standing nearby.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παρασπιστής· παρεστὼς ὁπλίτης.

Betacode

*paraspisth/s: parestw\s o(pli/ths.

Same entry in other lexica; references at Photius pi305 Theodoridis. The headword noun is found in two very different contexts: Attic tragedy (Aeschylus, Euripides) -- taken to be the source of these entries -- and Hellenistic historiography (e.g. Polybius and Appian).

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