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πελταστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελταστής πελταστοῦ

Structure: πελταστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pelta/zw

Sense

  1. one who bears a light shield, a targeteer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πελταστής πελταστᾱ́ πελτασταί
Genitive πελταστοῦ πελτασταῖν πελταστῶν
Dative πελταστῇ πελτασταῖν πελτασταῖς
Accusative πελταστήν πελταστᾱ́ πελταστᾱ́ς
Vocative πελταστά πελταστᾱ́ πελτασταί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • προσιόντεσ δέ μοι ἄλλοι τε καὶ οἱ τῶν ὑπηρεσιῶν ὄντεσ Ἀθήνηθεν, ἐμοὶ πολῖται, ἀπήγγελλον ὅτι διαβεβλημένοσ εἰήν ἐν τοῖσ πελτασταῖσ καί μοί τινεσ ἀπειλοῖεν, εἴ που λήψονταί με, διαφθερεῖν. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 172:2)
  • προσδεῖν γὰρ ἔφη πρὸσ τὸν μισθὸν τοῖσ πελτασταῖσ. (Lysias, Speeches, 26:4)
  • καὶ πελτασταῖσ δὲ καὶ τοξόταισ ἆθλα προύθηκεν, οἵτινεσ κράτιστοι τὰ προσήκοντα ἔργα φαίνοιντο. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 27:3)
  • σφαγιασάμενοσ οὖν τὴν μὲν φάλαγγα εὐθὺσ ἦγεν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀντιτεταγμένουσ ἱππέασ, ἐκ δὲ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν ἐκέλευσε τὰ δέκα ἀφ’ ἥβησ θεῖν ὁμόσε αὐτοῖσ, τοῖσ δὲ πελτασταῖσ εἶπε δρόμῳ ὑφηγεῖσθαι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 33:2)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ Ξενοφῶν ἦλθε σὺν τοῖσ ὀπισθοφύλαξι καὶ πελτασταῖσ καὶ ὁπλίταισ, ἐνταῦθα δὴ λέγει Χειρίσοφοσ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who bears a light shield

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

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