Campaspe

Campaspe

1. A supposed concubine of Alexander the Great.
2. A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
3. A river in northern Queensland, which joins the Cape River at Campaspe.
4. A river in Victoria, Australia, which flows north to join the Murray.
5. The Shire of Campaspe, a local government area in northern Victoria, named after the river.

Campaspe (plural Campaspes)

1. (archaic, poetic) A man's mistress.
   • John Lyly

     Cupid and my Campaspe play'd / At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: […]

   • 1836, David Paul Brown, The Prophet of St. Paul's: A Play, in Five Acts, page 23:

     But there may be Campaspes in our train.

From Ancient Greek Καμπάσπη (Kampáspē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kamˈpas.peː/, [kämˈpäs̠peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kamˈpas.pe/, [kämˈpäspe]

Campaspē f sg (genitive Campaspēs); first declension

1. A supposed concubine of Alexander the Great.

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• “Campaspe”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray