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λευστήρ?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: leustēr

Principal Part: λευστήρ λευστῆρος

Structure: λευστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: λεύω

Sense

  1. one who stones, a stoner, one deserving to be stoned.
  2. by stoning

Declension

Third 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

  • - βαῖνε λευστήρων πέλας πόνους τ Ἀχαιῶν ἀπόδος ἐν μικρῷ μακροὺς θανοῦς, ἵν εἰδῇς μὴ καταισχύνειν ἐμέ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 4:4)
  • κεἰ μή τις ἀρχῆς τῆς ἐμῆς ἀκούσεται, ἀνὴρ γυνή τε χὤ τι τῶν μεταίχμιον, ψῆφος κατ αὐτῶν ὀλεθρία βουλεύσεται, λευστῆρα δήμου δ οὔ τι μὴ φύγῃ μόρον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode7)
  • τοὺς δὲ ὑπηκόους ἅπαντας ἡγούμενος δούλους καὶ ὑπηρέτας τῆς αὑτοῦ τρυφῆς, οὐδὲ ποιμένος ἐπιεικοῦς ἔχων ἦθος, σκέπης καὶ νομῆς προνοούμενος τοῖς αὑτοῦ κτήνεσιν, ἔτι δὲ θῆρας ἀπαμύνων καὶ φῶρας προφυλάττων, ἀλλ αὐτὸς πρῶτος διαρπάζων τε καὶ φθείρων καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐπιτρέπων, καθάπερ, οἶμαι, πολεμίωνλείαν, οὐκ ἄν ποτε εἴποιμι τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄρχοντα ἢ αὐτοκράτορα ἢ βασιλέα, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον τύραννον καὶ λευστῆρα, ὥς ποτε προσεῖπεν ὁ Ἀπόλλων τὸν Σικυώνιον τύραννον, εἰ καὶ πολλὰς μὲν ἔχοι τιάρας, πολλὰ δὲ σκῆπτρα ὑπακούοιεν αὐτῷ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 48:1)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθίη οἱ χρᾷ φᾶσα Ἄδρηστον μὲν εἶναι Σικυωνίων βασιλέα, κεῖνον δὲ λευστῆρα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 67 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. by stoning

Similar forms

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

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