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ληιστήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληιστήρ ληιστῆρος

Structure: ληιστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: epic form of lh|sth/s,

Sense

  1. a robber, a pirate, rover

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

  • νῦν αὖτε Κρήτηθεν ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ ἤλυθον οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, βίῃ δ’ ἀέκουσαν ἀνάγκῃ ἄνδρεσ ληιστῆρεσ ἀπήγαγον. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:8)
  • ἤ τι κατὰ πρῆξιν ἢ μαψιδίωσ ἀλάλησθε οἱᾶ́ τε ληιστῆρεσ ὑπεὶρ ἅλα, τοί τ’ ἀλόωνται ψυχὰσ παρθέμενοι, κακὸν ἀλλοδαποῖσι φέροντεσ; (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 30:3)
  • ἀλλά ἑ ληιστῆρεσ ἐνιχρίμψαντεσ ἄγουσιν, ἢ θῆρεσ σίνονται· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:3)
  • ἤ τι κατά πρῆξιν ἦ μαψιδίωσ ἀλάλησθε οἱᾶ́ τε ληιστῆρεσ ὑπεὶρ ἅλα, τοί τ’ ἀλόωνται ψυχὰσ παρθέμενοι κακὸν ἀλλοδαποῖσι πέροντεσ; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 11:4)
  • ἦ τι κατὰ πρῆξιν ἦ μαψιδίωσ ἀλάλησθε, οἱᾶ́ τε ληιστῆρεσ, ὑπεὶρ ἅλα, τοί τ’ ἀλόωνται ψυχὰσ παρθέμενοι κακὸν ἀλλοδαποῖσι φέροντεσ; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 20:3)

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

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