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Πιτανήτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πιτανήτης

Structure: Πιτανητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a corps of the Spartan army

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Παυσανίησ τε καὶ ὁ Εὐρυάναξ δεινὸν μὲν ἐποιεῦντο τὸ μὴ πείθεσθαι ἐκεῖνον σφίσι, δεινότερον δὲ ἔτι, κείνου ταῦτ’ ἀναινομένου, ἀπολιπεῖν τὸν λόχον τὸν Πιτανήτην, μὴ ἢν ἀπολίπωσι ποιεῦντεσ τὰ συνεθήκαντο τοῖσι ἄλλοισι Ἕλλησι, ἀπόληται ὑπολειφθεὶσ αὐτόσ τε Ἀμομφάρετοσ καὶ οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 53 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a corps of the Spartan army

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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