Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πεζός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεζός πεζή πεζόν

Structure: πεζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pou/s

Sense

  1. on foot, fighters on foot, on land, going by land, foot-soldiery, infantry
  2. a land-force or army, by land
  3. land, beasts
  4. not rising above the ground, prosaic
  5. on foot
  6. by land

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

  • "ὅσ γε περιήγετο στρατευόμενοσ αὐλητρίδασ καὶ ψαλτρίασ καὶ πεζὰσ ἑταίρασ, καὶ τῶν χρημάτων τῶν εἰσφερομένων εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὰ μὲν εἰσ ταύτην τὴν ὕβριν ἀνήλισκε, τὰ δ’ αὐτοῦ κατέλειπεν Ἀθήνησιν τοῖσ τε λέγουσιν καὶ τὰ ψηφίσματα γράφουσιν καὶ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν τοῖσ δικαζομένοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:191)
  • τοῦ δὲ Ῥωμύλου τὰσ εἰκόνασ ὁρᾶν ἔστιν ἐν Ῥώμῃ τὰσ τροπαιοφόρουσ πεζὰσ ἁπάσασ. (Plutarch, chapter 16 8:5)
  • καί ῥ’ ὅτε δὴ Πλαγκτῇσιν ἐνιχρίμψεσθαι ἔμελλον, αὐτίκ’ ἀνασχόμεναι λευκοῖσ ἐπὶ γούνασι πέζασ, ὑψοῦ ἐπ’ αὐτάων σπιλάδων καὶ κύματοσ ἀγῆσ ῥώοντ’ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα διασταδὸν ἀλλήλῃσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:27)
  • μυρία τοίνυν ἕτερ’ εἰπεῖν ἔχων παραλείπω, ναυμαχίασ, ἐξόδουσ πεζάσ, στρατείασ καὶ πάλαι γεγονυίασ καὶ νῦν ἐφ’ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν, ἃσ ἁπάσασ ἡ πόλισ τῆσ τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίασ καὶ σωτηρίασ πεποίηται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 141:3)
  • ἴστε γὰρ δήπου τοῦθ’ ὅτι σῴζεται πολλάκισ ἡμῶν ἡ πόλισ διὰ τὰσ στρατείασ καὶ τὰσ ναυτικὰσ καὶ τὰσ πεζάσ, καὶ πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ πολλάκισ ἤδη διεπράξασθε καὶ σώσαντέσ τινασ καὶ τιμωρησάμενοι καὶ διαλλάξαντεσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 142:2)

Synonyms

  1. a land-force or army

  2. land

  3. on foot

  4. by land

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

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