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

  • καὶ οἱ Κρῆτεσ ἐσ Πομπήιον Μάγνον, στρατηγοῦντα τοῦ λῃστικοῦ καὶ Μιθριδατείου πολέμου, πέμψαντεσ ἔφασαν ἑαυτοὺσ ἐλθόντι ἐπιτρέψειν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:4)
  • ἑτέρων δ’ ἐμβόλουσ χαλκοστόμουσ, τοὺσ μὲν περὶ τοὺσ λιμένασ, τοὺσ δὲ ἐν τοῖσ ἄνω τόποισ τῆσ πόλεωσ μεμερισμένουσ σὺν πολλοῖσ καὶ λαμπροῖσ τοῖσ λαφύροισ, τοὺσ μὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ Τυρρηνῶν λῃστικοῦ, τοὺσ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων τῶν σὺν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, τοὺσ δ’ εἴ ποθεν αὐτῶν ἕκαστοσ εἰσῆκτο εἰσ τὴν πόλιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:10)

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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