Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λῃστρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστρικός λῃστρική λῃστρικόν

Structure: λῃστρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lh|stiko/s

Sense

  1. piratical

Examples

  • ἤδη δὲ καὶ χρήμασι δυνατοὶ καὶ γένεσι λαμπροὶ καὶ τὸ φρονεῖν ἀξιούμενοι διαφέρειν ἄνδρεσ ἐνέβαινον εἰσ τὰ λῃστρικὰ καὶ μετεῖχον, ὡσ καὶ δόξαν τινὰ καὶ φιλοτιμίαν τοῦ ἔργου φέροντοσ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 24 2:2)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἔστι τῶν ἐθνῶν ἃ πρὸσ τὸ κτείνειν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἀνθρωποφαγίαν εὐχερῶσ ἔχει, καθάπερ τῶν περὶ τὸν Πόντον Ἀχαιοί τε καὶ Ἡνίοχοι καὶ τῶν ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν ἕτερα, τὰ μὲν ὁμοίωσ τούτοισ τὰ δὲ μᾶλλον, ἃ λῃστρικὰ μέν ἐστιν, ἀνδρείασ δ’ οὐ μετειλήφασιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 38:3)
  • ἀλλά, νέοι, πανδημὶ τὰ λῃστρικὰ τῆσ Ἀφροδίτησ φεύγεθ’· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 442)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺν αὐταῖσ νηυσὶ τὰ λῃστρικὰ τῆσ Ἀφροδίτησ φεύγετε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 161 1:1)
  • τά τε γὰρ σκάφη μικρὰ ὄντα καὶ λῃστρικὰ πρὸσ τὰσ σχεδίασ ἦν ἀσθενῆ, καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐμπλέοντεσ ὀλίγοι πρὸσ ἀθρόουσ ἐφεστῶτασ τοὺσ Ῥωμαίουσ ἐγγίζειν ἐδεδοίκεισαν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 620:1)

Synonyms

  1. piratical

Related

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

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