throwing away oneʼs shield in battle, craven
throwing away oneʼs shield in battle, craven, Ar. Nu. 353, Pax 1186, Pl. Lg. 944b.
The corpus record
ῥίψ-ασπις
ripsaspis · ὁ
throwing away oneʼs shield in battle, craven
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Where it lives
- Laws 3 · 0.29/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥίψασπις · rhipsaspis Plato, Laws 944
- ῥίψασπις · rhipsaspis Plato, Laws 944
- ῥιψάσπιδι · rhipsaspidi Plato, Laws 944
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.