πρωτοστάτης
First declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
πρωτοστάτης
πρωτοστάτου
Structure:
πρωτοστατ
(Stem)
+
ης
(Ending)
Sense
- one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of the line; right-hand man, (in the plural) the front-rank men
- the lochagos
- man in the uneven rows in a lochos, as opposed to the epistates
Declension
First 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.
- ̓σ φάλαγγοσ οὐ φορητὴν γίγνεσθαι, καὶ τοῖσ πρωτοστάταισ αὖ ἄπορον τὴν φυγήν. (Arrian, chapter 12 16:3)
- δευτέρα δ’ ἐψηφοφόρει συμμορία τῶν ὑποδεεστέρων τοῖσ βίοισ καὶ τὴν ὑποβεβηκυῖαν τάξιν ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ καὶ ὁπλισμὸν οὐ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐχόντων τοῖσ πρωτοστάταισ, ἀλλ’ ἐλάττονα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 59 6:1)
- καὶ ᾤετο μὲν ἄν τισ δεήσειν τοῖσ γε πρωτοστάταισ ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου μάχεσθαι· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 19:1)
- ἔργον γάρ ἐστι τοῖσ μὲν πρωτοστάταισ θαρρύνειν τοὺσ ἑπομένουσ καὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 32:3)
- αὐτῷ γε μὴν τῷ τοῦ σώματοσ βάρει κατὰ τὴν ἐπαγωγὴν πιεζοῦντεσ οὗτοι τοὺσ προηγουμένουσ βιαίαν μὲν ποιοῦσι τὴν ἔφοδον, ἀδύνατον δὲ τοῖσ πρωτοστάταισ τὴν εἰσ τοὔπισθεν μεταβολήν. (Polybius, Histories, book 18, chapter 30 4:1)
Synonyms
-
one who stands first
- προστάτης (one who stands before, a front-rank-man)
