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εὐστάλεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐστάλεια

Structure: εὐσταλει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)stalh/s

Sense

  1. light equipment

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

  • οὐ γὰρ εἶχεν ὁ Μέτελλοσ ὅ τι χρήσαιτο προσπολεμῶν ἀνδρὶ τολμητῇ πάσησ ἐξαναδυομένῳ φανερᾶσ μάχησ, πᾶσαν δὲ μεταβαλλομένῳ μεταβολὴν εὐσταλείᾳ καὶ κουφότητι τῆσ Ἰβηρικῆσ στρατιᾶσ, αὐτὸσ ὁπλιτικῶν καὶ νομίμων ἀσκητὴσ γεγονὼσ ἀγώνων καὶ στρατηγὸσ ἐμβριθοῦσ καὶ μονίμου φάλαγγοσ, ὤσασθαι μὲν εἰσ χεῖρασ ἐλθόντασ πολεμίουσ καὶ καταβαλεῖν ἄριστα γεγυμνασμένησ, ὀρειβατεῖν δὲ καὶ συνηρτῆσθαι διώξεσι καὶ φυγαῖσ ἀπαύστοισ ἀνθρώπων ὑπηνεμίων καὶ λιμὸν ἀνέχεσθαι καὶ δίαιταν ἄπυρον καὶ ἄσκηνον, ὥσπερ ἐκεῖνοι, μὴ δυναμένησ. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 12 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. light equipment

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

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