aegis

aegis englannista suomeksi

1. turva, suoja

2. rintasuojus

0. Substantiivi

1. suojelus, suoja, turva

aegis englanniksi

1. A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. (defdate)

2. (quote-book)|year=1790|volume=I|page=20|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3RPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20|column=1|oclc=976883484|passage=The goat Amalthea, which had suckled Jove, being dead, that god is said to have covered his buckler with the skin thereof, whence the appellation Aegis, from (lang), (lang), a she-goat. Jupiter afterwards restoring the goat to life, covered it with a new skin, and placed it among the stars. This buckler, which was the work of Vulcan, he gave to Minerva, who having killed the Gorgon Medusa, nailed her head to the middle of the Aegis, which henceforth possessed the faculty of converting to stone all who beheld it, as Medusa herself had while alive.

3. (quote-book)|series=Ancient Unedited Monuments|seriesvolume=series 1|location=London|publisher=s.n.|year=1822|page=3|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gtJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3|oclc=58892108|passage=(w), as proof of this origin of Minerva, says, that the Greeks had taken from the Libyan women, the dress and the ægis with which her statues were represented: this dress was of leather: the ægis, as its name implies, was simply a goatskin died red and worn over the shoulders like a mantle: the extremity of it was cut into shreds or tassels, which the lively fancy of the Grecian artists converted into serpents.

4. (quote-journal); Cincinnati, Oh.: Truman & Smith|year=1837|volume=X|issue=27|page=49|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5I3AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA49|oclc=472043802|passage=The robe and ''aegides'' of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the ''aegis'' are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder ((lang)) and from these goat skins, ((lang)) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.

5. (quote-book)|edition=11th improved|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=Published and for sale by Hogan & Thompson(nb...)|year=1849|page=57|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57|oclc=10952348|passage=In her right hand Minerva bore a beaming lance, and in her left a buckler, called the Egis. The Egis of Minerva had embossed upon it the head of Medusa.

6. (quote-book), Father of the West|series=Essays in Order|seriesvolume=no. 14|location=London|publisher=and Ward|Sheed & Ward|month=November|year=1934|page=65|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0AOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA65|oclc=270557474|passage=Cattle grazed where now is the Forum Romanum, and the Capitol, now glittering with gold, was covered then with brambles; nevertheless a god already dwelt there, even Jupiter himself, whose right hand had oft been seen to shake the aegis and summon the storm-clouds.

7. ''Usually as'' under the aegis: guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship.

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10. (quote-book)'' notoriously left the individual states free to prohibit any ''acts'' they wish to define as "sodomy," by whomsoever performed, with no fear at all of impinging on any rights, and particularly privacy rights, safeguarded by the Constiution; yet only shortly thereafter a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules (in ''Watkins|Sergeant Perry J. Watkins v. United States Army'') that homosexual ''persons'', as a particular kind of person, ''are'' entitled to Constitutional protections under the Equal Protection clause. To be gay in this system is to come under the radically overlapping aegises of a universalizing discourse of acts and a minoritizing discourse of persons.

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12. the (l), or (l). See (w); αἰγίς.

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17. (Q), syncretized with the Roman goddess (w).

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19. a (l), a (l); (l)

20. the (l) by which (l) try to (l) their (l)

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21. (l) (l)

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