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λῃστεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστεία

Structure: λῃστει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from lh|steu/w

Sense

  1. a robber's life, robbery, piracy, buccaneering

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

  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ πολὺ ὠμοτέρου λῃστοῦ μνήμην ποιησόμεθα, ὅσῳ μὴ ἐν ὕλαισ καὶ ἐν ὄρεσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐν πόλεσιν οὗτοσ ἐλῄστευεν, οὐ Μυσίαν μόνην οὐδὲ τὴν Ἴδην κατατρέχων οὐδὲ ὀλίγα τῆσ Ἀσίασ μέρη τὰ ἐρημότερα λεηλατῶν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ὡσ εἰπεῖν τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴν ἐμπλήσασ τῆσ λῃστείασ τῆσ αὑτοῦ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 2:4)
  • οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ πρὸσ λῃστείασ, ὥσπερ ἄλλοι τινέσ, ἢ τὸ πλέον ἔχειν ἀξιοῦν πολεμοῦντεσ ἐτράπησαν ἡμῶν οἱ πατέρεσ καίτοι πολλὰσ τῆσ χώρασ ἐχούσησ μυριάδασ ἀνδρῶν οὐκ ἀτόλμων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 74:2)
  • ὅτι κατὰ χρησμὸν ἐκ τῆσ νήσου μεταστάντεσ εἰσ Μυκάλην ἀπὸ λῃστείασ δέκα ἔτη διεγένοντο· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 552)
  • ὅτι κατὰ χρησμὸν ἐκ τῆσ νήσου μεταστάντεσ εἰσ Μυκάλην ἀπὸ λῃστείασ δέκα ἔτη διεγένοντο· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 551)
  • ὁ δὲ Λαχάρησ ὑπ’ Ἀντωνίου λῃστείασ αἰτίᾳ περιπεσὼν ἐπελεκίσθη. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 67 3:1)

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

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