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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

  • καὶ Ἀρριανὸσ γὰρ ὁ τοῦ Ἐπικτήτου μαθητήσ, ἀνὴρ Ῥωμαίων ἐν τοῖσ πρώτοισ καὶ παιδείᾳ παρ’ ὅλον τὸν βίον συγγενόμενοσ, ὅμοιόν τι παθὼν ἀπολογήσαιτ’ ἂν καὶ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν Τιλλορόβου ^ γοῦν τοῦ λῃστοῦ κἀκεῖνοσ βίον ἀναγράψαι ἠξίωσεν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 2:3)
  • 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)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ μηχανᾶταί τι ὁ τρισκατάρατοσ οὐκ ἄσοφον οὐδὲ τοῦ προστυχόντοσ λῃστοῦ ἄξιον. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:1)
  • ὕστερον δὲ ἀποθανόντοσ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ λῃστοῦ τινοσ ὑπὸ φαρμάκων, ὡσ ἐδόκει, φυλακή τε ἀκριβὴσ ἐγένετο καὶ οὐκέτι παρῄει εἰσ τὸ οἴκημα οὐδὲ εἷσ τῶν δεομένων. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 31:1)
  • τοῦτον οὖν, φησίν, οἱ νεώτεροι ποιηταὶ κατασκευάζουσιν ἐν λῃστοῦ σχήματι μόνον περιπορευόμενον, ξύλον ἔχοντα καὶ λεοντῆν καὶ τόξα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. robber

  2. pirate

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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