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

  • ἐπὶ τῆσ τούτων ἀρχῆσ Αἰκανοὶ μὲν εἰσ τὴν Λατίνων χώραν ἐμβαλόντεσ ἀπήλασαν ἀνδράποδα καὶ βοσκήματα πολλὰ λῃστρικῇ ἐφόδῳ χρησάμενοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 91 1:1)
  • τῇ δὲ Σουσίδι ἡ Ἐλυμαὶ̈σ καὶ αὐτὴ τραχεῖα ἡ πολλὴ καὶ λῃστρική· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 34:6)

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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