Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

λῃστάρχης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστάρχης λῃστάρχου

Structure: λῃσταρχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)/rxw

Sense

  1. a captain of robbers

Declension

First 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

  • οἱ γὰρ βίου καὶ πατρίδων διὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἀφῃρημένοι, καὶ ἐσ ἀπορίαν ἐμπεσόντεσ ἀθρόαν, ἀντὶ τῆσ γῆσ ἐκαρποῦντο τὴν θάλασσαν, μυοπάρωσι πρῶτον καὶ ἡμιολίαισ, εἶτα δικρότοισ καὶ τριήρεσι κατὰ μέρη περιπλέοντεσ, ἡγουμένων λῃστάρχων οἱᾶ πολέμου στρατηγῶν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a captain of robbers

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

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