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hypaspistai

hypaspistai is the plural of hypaspist.

Meaning of hypaspist

Noun

hypaspist (plural hypaspists or hypaspistai)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A type of lightly armoured foot soldier equipped with an aspis (shield) and spear.
    • Meanwhile Darius had loosed his scythed cars, to whirl destruction into the ranks of the Companions and the hypaspists. But the archers and the Agrian spear-throwers received them with showers of spears and arrows; some of these active hillsmen seized the reins of the horses and pulled the riders...1900, John Bagnell Bury, A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great, Cambridge University Press, page 777

Questions about hypaspistai

What is hypaspistai the plural of?
Hypaspistai is the plural of hypaspist.

Words near hypaspistai in the dictionary

  1. hyparchic
  2. hyparterial
  3. hyparxis
  4. Hypasis
  5. hypaspist
  6. hypaspistai
  7. hypaspists
  8. hypate
  9. Hypatia
  10. Hypatian
  11. hypatocyte

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