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λευστήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λευστήρ λευστῆρος

Structure: λευστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: leu/w

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

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

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