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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

  • ἔτυχε γὰρ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ λῃστηρίοισ τε ὑπὸ τῶν πλησιοχώρων πόλεων καὶ καταδρομαῖσ τισιν ἡ γῆ βλαπτομένη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 81 3:4)
  • εὐδαίμονοσ δὲ τῆσ χώρασ ὑπαρχούσησ κατά τε καρποὺσ καὶ βοσκήματα καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου καὶ τῶν παραπλησίων πλῆθοσ, ὅμωσ οἱ πλείουσ αὐτῶν τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ἀφέντεσ βίον ἐν λῃστηρίοισ διετέλουν καὶ συνεχεῖ πολέμῳ πρόσ τε ἀλλήλουσ καὶ τοὺσ ὁμόρουσ αὐτοῖσ διαβαίνοντεσ τὸν Τάγον, ἑώσ ἔπαυσαν αὐτοὺσ Ῥωμαῖοι ταπεινώσαντεσ καὶ κώμασ ποιήσαντεσ τὰσ πόλεισ αὐτῶν τὰσ πλείστασ, ἐνίασ δὲ καὶ συνοικίζοντεσ βέλτιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 10:9)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Ιἄποδεσ πρότερον εὐανδροῦντεσ καὶ τοῦ ὄρουσ ἐφ’ ἑκάτερον τὴν οἴκησιν ἔχοντεσ καὶ τοῖσ λῃστηρίοισ ἐπικρατοῦντεσ, ἐκπεπόνηνται τελέωσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαροσ καταπολεμηθέντεσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 20:2)
  • ἐπιτίθενται δὲ τῷ καιρῷ καὶ οἱ τὴν Τραχωνῖτιν ἔχοντεσ τῆσ τῶν Ἰδουμαίων φρουρᾶσ κατεξαναστάντεσ καὶ λῃστηρίοισ χρώμενοι μετὰ τῶν Ἀράβων, οἳ ἐλεηλάτουν τὴν ἐκείνων χώραν οὐκ ἀπὸ ὠφελείασ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ μνησικακίασ χαλεπώτεροι τὰσ ἀδικίασ ὄντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 344:1)

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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