The corpus record

ὑπασπίδιος

upaspidios

covered with a shield

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Where it lives

Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

ὑπασπ-ίδιος · hypasp-idios — LSJ

covered with a shield, body, armed, in arms

covered with a shield, in Hom. only as Adv., ὑπασπίδια προποδίζων and προβιβῶντι (-βῶντος) Il. 13.158, 807, 16.609:—after Hom. as Adj., ὑ. πολεμιστής Asius Fr.Ep. 13.7 K.; τὸν ὑ. κόσμον the body-armour and arms of Ajax, S. Aj. 1408 (anap.); ὑ. κοῖτον ἰαύειν sleep an armed sleep, sleep in arms, E. Rh. 740 (anap.).

In the wild

ὑπασπίδιον · hypaspidion Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 484)
ὑπασπίδια · hypaspidia Iliad 13.158
ὑπασπίδια · hypaspidia Iliad 13.807
ὑπασπίδια · hypaspidia Iliad 16.609
ὑπασπίδιον · hypaspidion Sophocles, Ajax 1407–1409

Where it came from

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