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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

  • προτετάχθων δὲ τούτων οἱ Ἀπλανοὶ οἱ διακόσιοι, καὶ Κυρηναῖοι οἱ ἑκατόν, ὡσ προβολὴν μὲν εἶναι πρὸ τῶν ἀκοντιστῶν τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ, τοὺσ δὲ ὑπερακοντίζειν ἐκ τοῦ ὑπερδεξιοῦ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 20:1)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τοῦτο μᾶλλον αὐτῷ χρῆσθαι βουλόμενοσ ἐνέπλησε τὴν ὕλην καὶ τὰσ κοιλάδασ ἀκοντιστῶν τε πολλῶν καὶ λογχοφόρων, πεπεισμένοσ ἐπάξεσθαι δι’ εὐφυϊάν αὐτὰ τὰ χωρία τοὺσ Ῥωμαίουσ. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 29 3:2)
  • ἐμβιβάσαντεσ δὲ τῶν πεζῶν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ καὶ τῶν ἀκοντιστῶν τοὺσ ἀλκιμωτάτουσ ἐπλήρωσαν ἑκατὸν καὶ δέκα τριήρεισ· (Plutarch, , chapter 24 4:1)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τούτουσ εὐθὺσ ἀναλαβὼν τούσ τε τοξότασ καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀκοντιστῶν τάξεισ καὶ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν ὅσοι κουφότεροι ἐπήγαγεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 27 8:1)
  • θύρασ γὰρ μεγάλασ πλείονασ ἥλοισ ὀξέσι καταπυκνώσασ καὶ ταύτασ ἐν ὀρύγμασι ταπεινοῖσ καταστρώσασ καὶ τὰσ ἐξοχὰσ τῶν κέντρων ἐπικρυψάμενοσ κατέλιπε διὰ τούτων δίοδον εἰσ τὴν πόλιν καὶ κατὰ μέτωπον μὲν οὐδένα τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἔστησεν, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πλαγίων ἔταξε πλῆθοσ ἀκοντιστῶν καὶ τοξοτῶν καὶ τῶν καταπελτικῶν βελῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 71 3:2)

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

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