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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

  • ἐκεῖνοσ γὰρ δἰ ὀλίγου τῆσ στρατιᾶσ ἐκείνησ παρασκευασθείσησ οὐ μεγαλωστὶ οὐδὲ κατ̓ 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)

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

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