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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)
  • μὴ καὶ ληιστῆρασ ἑὴν ἐσ γαῖαν ἰόντασ ἔσσεσθαι δηναιὸν ἀπήμονασ, οἷσι μέμηλεν ὀθνείοισ ἐπὶ χεῖρα ἑὴν κτεάτεσσιν ἀείρειν, κρυπταδίουσ τε δόλουσ τεκταινέμεν, ἠδὲ βοτήρων αὔλια δυσκελάδοισιν ἐπιδρομίῃσι δαΐξαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 10:32)
  • εἰσ τὴν σταύρωσιν Χριστὸσ ἐπὶ σταυροῖο πεπαρμένοσ ἦν ποτε γυμνόσ, μεσσόθι, ληιστῆρασ ἔχων ἑκάτερθε παγέντασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 281)
  • καὶ τότ’ ἐγείνατο παῖδα πολύτροπον, αἱμυλομήτην, ληιστῆρ’, ἐλατῆρα βοῶν, ἡγήτορ’ ὀνείρων, νυκτὸσ ὀπωπητῆρα, πυληδόκον, ὃσ τάχ’ ἔμελλεν ἀμφανέειν κλυτὰ ἔργα μετ’ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:4)

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

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