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πελταστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελταστικός πελταστική πελταστικόν

Structure: πελταστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from peltasth/s

Sense

  1. skilled in the use of the, like a targeteer, the art or skill of a targeteer, quite in the manner of peltastai/, in the best style

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ταῦτα ὁ Φιλοποίμην διδάξασ ἔπεισεν αὐτοὺσ ἀντὶ μὲν θυρεοῦ καὶ δόρατοσ ἀσπίδα λαβεῖν καὶ σάρισαν, κράνεσι δὲ καὶ θώραξι καὶ περικνημῖσι πεφραγμένουσ μόνιμον καὶ βεβηκυῖαν ἀντὶ δρομικῆσ καὶ πελταστικῆσ μάχην ἀσκεῖν. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 9 2:2)
  • γυμνάσια γὰρ τίθεμεν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἅπαντα τοῖσ σώμασι διαπονήματα τοξικῆσ τε καὶ πάσησ ῥίψεωσ καὶ πελταστικῆσ καὶ πάσησ ὁπλομαχίασ καὶ διεξόδων τακτικῶν καὶ ἁπάσησ πορείασ στρατοπέδων καὶ στρατοπεδεύσεων καὶ ὅσα εἰσ ἱππικὴν μαθήματα συντείνει. (Plato, Laws, book 7 158:2)

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

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