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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

  • μή με τὸν Αἰάντειον ἀνοχμάσσειασ, ὁδῖτα, πέτρον, ἀκοντιστὴν στήθεοσ Ἑκτορέου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2041)
  • ταῖσ Νύμφαισ Κινύρησ τόδε δίκτυον οὐ γὰρ ἀείρει γῆρασ ἀκοντιστὴν μόχθον ἑκηβολίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 261)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ Ἕλληνεσ οὔτε τοξότην εἶχον οὔτε ἀκοντιστὴν οὔτε ἱππέα· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 7:1)
  • πολλοὶ γοῦν κἀν ταῖσ γυμνασίαισ αὐτὸν κατεπλάγησαν ἀκοντιστήν τε ἰθυβολώτατον καὶ τοξότην εὐστοχώτατον ἰδόντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 613:1)

Related

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

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