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

  • καὶ Ῥωμαίοισ μὲν ἦν ἐκ θαλάσσησ ἀγορὰ δαψιλήσ, Ἰτυκαῖοι δὲ καὶ Καρχηδόνιοι λιμώττοντεσ ἐλῄστευον τοὺσ ἐμπόρουσ, μέχρι Ῥωμαίων νῆεσ ἄλλαι, πεμφθεῖσαι τῷ Σκιπίωνι, ἐφώρμουν τοῖσ πολεμίοισ καὶ τὰσ λῃστρικὰσ ἐκώλυον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 7:7)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν λῃστρικὰσ ἔχων ναῦσ οὐκ ὀλίγασ ἐφήδρευσε ταῖσ κομιζομέναισ τῶν πολεμίων ἀγοραῖσ, καὶ τὰσ μὲν αὐτῶν διέφθειρεν ἐν θαλάττῃ, τὰσ δὲ διεκώλυσεν, ἐνίασ δὲ ἀφείλατο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 1 16:2)

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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