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ἀσπίδα (aspida)

ἀσπίδα is an Ancient Greek form of ἀσπίς, meaning “shield”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 263 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1264: ἀσπίδα χαλκείην μελίην τʼ ἐν χερσὶ τινάσσων.

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 32.1: … ύντων, εἶτα πάλιν ἐν σκότε καὶ θορύβῳ περιτιθέντων καὶ γενομένης διατριβῆς, οἱ Ἀργεῖοι συναισθόμενοι πρὸς τὴν Ἀσπίδα καὶ τοὺς ὀχυροὺς τόπους ἀνέθεον, καὶ τὸν Ἀντίγονον ἐκάλουν πέμποντες.

All forms of ἀσπίς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.