Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αἰχμάλωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰχμάλωτος αἰχμάλωτη αἰχμάλωτον

Structure: αἰχμαλωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. taken by the spear, captive to one's spear, taken prisoner, prisoner, booty
  2. such as awaits a captive

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ τότε τοσούτου τελεσθέντοσ ἐξέπληξε τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Πομπήϊον ἐν τῷ μεγέθει τῆσ δαπάνησ τὸ τάχοσ τῆσ παρασκευῆσ, εἰσ ταῦτα μέν οὖν ὑβριστικῶσ ἐχρῆτο τῷ πλούτῳ καθάπερ ὄντωσ αἰχμαλώτῳ καὶ βαρβάρῳ. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 41 6:1)
  • οὐ μέντοι καταχρήσεσθαί γ’ αὐταῖσ, ἀρκεσθήσεσθαι δὲ τῷ θ’ ἵππῳ τῆσ λαμπρότητοσ τῶν σημείων ἕνεκεν καὶ ἑνὶ αἰχμαλώτῳ, ὃσ ἔτυχεν αὐτῷ ξένοσ ὤν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 94 3:2)
  • ἐόντι δὲ αἰχμαλώτῳ τῷ Ἀστυάγεϊ προσστὰσ ὁ Ἅρπαγοσ κατέχαιρέ τε καὶ κατεκερτόμεε, καὶ ἄλλα λέγων ἐσ αὐτὸν θυμαλγέα ἔπεα, καὶ δὴ καὶ εἴρετό μιν πρὸσ τὸ ἑωυτοῦ δεῖπνον, τὸ μιν ἐκεῖνοσ σαρξὶ τοῦ παιδὸσ ἐθοίνησε, ὅ τι εἰή ἡ ἐκείνου δουλοσύνη ἀντὶ τῆσ βασιληίησ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 129 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. taken by the spear

Related

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

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