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πελταστικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: peltastikos

Principal Part: πελταστικός πελταστική πελταστικόν

Structure: πελταστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from πελταστής

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

  • ἐκεῖνος γὰρ δἰ ὀλίγου τῆς στρατιᾶς ἐκείνης παρασκευασθείσης οὐ μεγαλωστὶ οὐδὲ κατ᾿ ἀξίαν τοῦ πολέμου ἀφίκετο κομιδῇ ὀλίγους ἄγων, καὶ τούτων πελταστικὸν τὸ πολὺ καὶ ψιλικόν: (Lucian, Zeuxis 15:2)
  • αὐτίκα τῶν πεζῶν ἡ ὅπλισις, ὥς γε δὴ ἐς τὰ ἀνωτάτω τεμεῖν, τριχῆ νενέμηται, ἔς τε τὸ ὁπλιτικὸν καὶ ἐς τὸ ψιλὸν καὶ ἐς τὸ πελταστικόν. (Arrian, chapter 3 1:2)
  • Ἑλλήνων κρατεῖν ἔργον ἦν, Βοιωτῶν καὶ Φωκέων καὶ Ἀθηναίων, καὶ τὸ Ἀρκάδων ὁπλιτικὸν καὶ τὴν Θετταλὴν ἵππον καὶ τοὺς Ἠλείων ἀκοντιστὰς καὶ τὸ Μαντινέων πελταστικὸν ἢ Θρᾷκας ἢ Ἰλλυριοὺς ἢ καὶ Παίονας χειρώσασθαι, ταῦτα μεγάλα: (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • καὶ τοῖς μὲν ἱππεῦσιν ἀναμίξας τὸ πελταστικόν, ἐλαύνειν ἐκέλευσεν ὡς τάχιστα καὶ προσβάλλειν τοῖς ἐναντίοις, αὐτὸς δὲ εὐθὺς τοὺς ὁπλίτας ἐπῆγε, γενομένης δὲ τροπῆς τῶν βαρβάρων ἐπακολουθήσαντες οἱ Ἕλληνες ἔλαβον τὸ στρατόπεδον καὶ πολλοὺς ἀνεῖλον. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 10 3:1)
  • 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)
  • ἴσως δέ γ, ὦ θαυμάσιε, πλείω ἂν τοιαῦτ ἔπαθες εἴ τίς σε προσηρώτα εἰ ἐπίστασθαι ἔστι μὲν ὀξύ, ἔστι δὲ ἀμβλύ, καὶ ἐγγύθεν μὲν ἐπίστασθαι, πόρρωθεν δὲ μή, καὶ σφόδρα καὶ ἠρέμα τὸ αὐτό, καὶ ἄλλα μυρία, ἃ ἐλλοχῶν ἂν πελταστικὸς ἀνὴρ μισθοφόρος ἐν λόγοις ἐρόμενος, ἡνίκ ἐπιστήμην καὶ αἴσθησιν ταὐτὸν ἔθου, ἐμβαλὼν ἂν εἰς τὸ ἀκούειν καὶ ὀσφραίνεσθαι καὶ τὰς τοιαύτας αἰσθήσεις, ἤλεγχεν ἂν ἐπέχων καὶ οὐκ ἀνιεὶς πρὶν θαυμάσας τὴν πολυάρατον σοφίαν συνεποδίσθης ὑπ αὐτοῦ, οὗ δή σε χειρωσάμενός τε καὶ συνδήσας ἤδη ἂν τότε ἐλύτρου χρημάτων ὅσων σοί τε κἀκείνῳ ἐδόκει. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 144:2)

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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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