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λῃστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστής λῃστοῦ

Structure: λῃστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: lhi/zomai

Sense

  1. robber, bandit
  2. pirate, buccaneer
  3. revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla

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

  • εἰ κλέπται εἰσῆλθον πρόσ σε ἢ λῃσταὶ νυκτόσ, ποῦ ἂν ἀπερρίφησ̣ οὐκ ἂν ἔκλεψαν τὰ ἱκανὰ ἑαυτοῖσ̣ καὶ εἰ τρυγηταὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸσ σέ, οὐκ ἂν ὑπελίποντο ἐπιφυλλίδα̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Abdiae 1:5)
  • ἄνδρεσ λῃσταὶ ἦσαν ἐν σοί, ὅπωσ ἐκχέωσιν ἐν σοὶ αἷμα, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων ἤσθιον ἐν σοί, ἀνόσια ἐποίουν ἐν μέσῳ σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 22:9)
  • ἢ λῃσταὶ κακομάχανοι ποιμένων ἀέκατι μήλων σεύοντ’ ἀγέλασ βίᾳ; (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 1:4)
  • μὰ Δί’ ἀλλ’ ἵν’ οἱ λῃσταί τε μὴ λυπῶσί με, μετὰ τῶν γεράνων τ’ ἐκεῖθεν ἀναχωρῶ πάλιν, ἀνθ’ ἑρ́ματοσ πολλὰσ καταπεπωκὼσ δίκασ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric16)
  • Οὔξιοι καλέονται, ὑπὲρ ὅτων λέλεκταί μοι ἐν τῇ ἄλλῃ συγγραφῇ ὅτι λῃσταὶ εἰσι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 40 2:3)
  • μηδ[ὲ τοῖσ] δακρύοισ τοῖσ Ἁγ[νω]νίδου προσέχετε [τὸν] νοῦν, ἐκεῖνο λο[γιζό]μενοι, ὅτι ἀτυχ[ήσαν]τι μὲν οὗτοσ δ’ ἂν [κλαίων] οὐ δίκαια ποιήσ[ειεν], ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ λ[ῃσταὶ] οἱ ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχ[οῦ κλαί]οντεσ, ἐξὸν αὐ[τοῖσ] μὴ ἐμβαίνε[ιν εἰσ] τὸ πλοῖον. (Hyperides, Speeches, 9:5)

Synonyms

  1. robber

  2. pirate

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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