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ἀκοντιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκοντιστής

Structure: ἀκοντιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)konti/zw

Sense

  1. a darter, javelin-man

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

  • καὶ βαρύνεται ὁ πόλεμοσ ἐπὶ Σαούλ, καὶ εὑρίσκουσιν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀκοντισταί, ἄνδρεσ τοξόται, καὶ ἐτραυματίσθη εἰσ τά ὑποχόνδρια. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 31:3)
  • πρὸ δὲ τοῦ σημείου αὖ τῶν πεζῶν οἱ ἀκοντισταὶ τετάχθων. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 8:1)
  • στεῦται δ’ ἱεροῦ Τμώλου πελάται ζυγὸν ἀμφιβαλεῖν δούλιον Ἑλλάδι, Μάρδων, Θάρυβισ, λόγχησ ἄκμονεσ, καὶ ἀκοντισταὶ Μυσοί· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • προετάχθησαν δὲ αὐτῷ τοῦ μὲν δεξιοῦ κέρωσ οἵ τε τοξόται καὶ οἱ Ἀγριᾶνεσ, τοῦ δὲ εὐωνύμου οἱ ἀκοντισταὶ οἱ Θρᾷκεσ, ὧν ἡγεῖτο Σιτάλκησ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 28 4:2)
  • τῆσ δὲ βασιλικῆσ ἴλησ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἑταίρων προτεταγμένοι ἦσαν τῶν τε Ἀγριάνων καὶ τῶν τοξοτῶν οἱ ἡμίσεεσ, καὶ οἱ Βαλάκρου ἀκοντισταί· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 12 3:3)

Related

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

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