Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ληίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληίζομαι

Structure: ληίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: lhi/s

Sense

  1. to seize as booty, to carry off as prey, to get by force, to gain, get
  2. to plunder, despoil
  3. to plunder
  4. to be carried off, taken as booty

Examples

  • πλεῖστα δὲ Ῥωμαίοισ ἐνυβρίσαντεσ, ἔτι καὶ τὰσ ὁδοὺσ αὐτῶν ἀναβαίνοντεσ ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ ἐληΐζοντο καὶ τὰσ ἐγγὺσ ἐπαύλεισ ἐξέκοπτον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 24 6:1)
  • ἐληίζοντο τὰσ κτήσεισ τῶν πολιτῶν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ βασιλίζειν αἰτίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 13 6:2)
  • οὐδὲ γεγενημένων ἐπελάθοντο, καιρὸν δὲ νομίσαντεσ ἐπιτήδειον ἔχειν ὧν ἐξέτισαν Ῥωμαίοισ χρημάτων πολλαπλάσια παρ’ αὐτῶν ἀπολαβεῖν, ὀλίγοι μὲν τὸ πρῶτον καὶ ἀφανῶσ ἐξιόντεσ ἐληίζοντο τὴν ὅμορον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 33 2:1)
  • χρόνῳ δὲ τῆσ τε χώρασ καὶ πόλεωσ κατασχεῖν Βρίγασ ἐκ Φρυγῶν ἐπανελθόντασ καὶ Ταυλαντίουσ ἐπ’ ἐκείνοισ, Ἰλλυρικὸν ἔθνοσ, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσ Ταυλαντίοισ ἕτερον γένοσ Ἱλλυριῶν Λιβυρνούσ, οἳ τὰ περίοικα νηυσὶ ταχείαισ ἐληίζοντο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 6 2:8)
  • ἐντυχοῦσαι δὲ πρώτῳ ἱπποφορβίῳ τοῦτο διήρπασαν, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτων ἱππαζόμεναι ἐληίζοντο τὰ τῶν Σκυθέων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 110 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. to plunder

  2. to plunder

  3. to be carried off

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

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