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λῃστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστήριον λῃστήριου

Structure: λῃστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from lh|sth/s

Sense

  1. a band of robbers, a retreat or nest of robbers
  2. robbery

Declension

Second 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

  • καίτοι τοσαύτην μεταβολὴν ἡ νίκη περὶ αὐτὸν ἐποίησεν, ὡσ πρὸ τῆσ μάχησ οὐ πόλιν, οὐκ ἐμπόριον, οὐ λιμένα τῆσ Ἰταλίασ ἔχοντα, χαλεπῶσ δὲ καὶ μόλισ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια τῇ στρατιᾷ δι’ ἁρπαγῆσ κομιζόμενον, ὁρμώμενον ἀπ’ οὐδενὸσ βεβαίου πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ λῃστηρίῳ μεγάλῳ τῷ στρατοπέδῳ πλανώμενον καὶ περιφερόμενον, τότε πᾶσαν ὀλίγου δεῖν ὑφ’ αὑτῷ ποιήσασθαι τὴν Ἰταλίαν. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 17 2:1)
  • καὶ πρῶτοσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἐκπεμφθεὶσ Οὐαρίνιοσ Γλάβροσ, ἐπὶ δ’ ἐκείνῳ Πόπλιοσ Οὐαλέριοσ, οὐ πολιτικὴν στρατιὰν ἄγοντεσ, ἀλλ’ ὅσουσ ἐν σπουδῇ καὶ παρόδῳ συνέλεξαν οὑ̓ γάρ πω Ῥωμαῖοι πόλεμον, ἀλλ’ ἐπιδρομήν τινα καὶ λῃστηρίῳ τὸ ἔργον ὅμοιον ἡγοῦντο εἶναἰ, συμβαλόντεσ ἡττῶντο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 14 1:4)
  • λῃστηρίῳ δ’ ἐχρῆτο καὶ ὁρμητηρίῳ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ τῷ καρτερωτάτῳ τῶν χωρίων ὄνομα Καλλυδίῳ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. robbery

Related

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

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