Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λῃστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστικός λῃστική λῃστικόν

Structure: λῃστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inclined to rob, piratical, buccaneering, piracy, a band of robbers
  2. in the manner of pirates;

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ αὐτοὺσ ἐκέλευον ἐκδοῦναί τε αὐτοῖσ Λασθένη τὸν πολεμήσαντα Ἀντωνίῳ, καὶ τὰ σκάφη τὰ λῃστικὰ πάντα παραδοῦναι, καὶ ὅσα Ῥωμαίων εἶχον αἰχμάλωτα, καὶ ὅμηρα τριακόσια καὶ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα τετρακισχίλια. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. in the manner of pirates

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

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