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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

  • μηχανήσασθαι δὲ ἐξεπίτηδεσ ταῦτα Αἰακόν φασι λῃστειῶν τῶν ἐκ θαλάσσησ φόβῳ, καὶ πολεμίοισ ἀνδράσι μὴ ἄνευ κινδύνου εἶναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 10:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ δεύτερον ἐπιφέρειν ἐδόκει ὅπλα ἐπὶ τὴν ἄλλων ‐ ἐνῆγον δὲ μάλιστα οἱ ὁμοῦ Καμβαύλῃ ἐκστρατεύσαντεσ ἅτε λῃστειῶν τε ἤδη γεγευμένοι καὶ ἁρπαγῆσ καὶ κερδῶν ἐσ ἔρωτα ἥκοντεσ ‐ , πολὺσ μὲν δὴ πεζόσ, οὐκ ἐλάχιστοι δὲ ἠθροίσθησαν καὶ ἐσ τὸ ἱππικόν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 11:1)
  • ἐκοινώνει μὲν γὰρ τοῖσ Κρησὶ τῶν κατὰ θάλατταν λῃστειῶν· (Polybius, Histories, book 13, chapter 8 2:1)

Related

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

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