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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

  • πελταστικὴν δὲ ὅλην ἀντιστήσαντασ δεῖ τῇ τοῦ παγκρατίου μάχῃ, τόξοισ καὶ πέλταισ καὶ ἀκοντίοισ καὶ λίθῳ ἐκ χειρόσ τε καὶ σφενδόναισ ἁμιλλωμένων, διαθεμένουσ αὖ περὶ τούτων νόμουσ, τῷ κάλλιστα ἀποδιδόντι τὰ περὶ ταῦτα νόμιμα τὰ γέρα καὶ τὰσ νίκασ διανέμειν. (Plato, Laws, book 8 37:2)

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

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