λῃστάς (lestas)

λῃστάς is an Ancient Greek form of λῃστής, meaning “robber, pirate”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 93 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.32.1: … ναίων φρούριον τοῦ θέρους τούτου τελευτῶντος, ἡ ἐπὶ Λοκροῖς τοῖς Ὀπουντίοις νῆσος ἐρήμη πρότερον οὖσα, τοῦ μὴ λῃστὰς ἐκπλέοντας ἐξ Ὀποῦντος καὶ τῆς ἄλλης Λοκρίδος κακουργεῖν τὴν Εὔβοιαν. ταῦτα μὲν ἐν τῷ θέρει τούτῳ μετὰ τὴν Πε …

Plutarch, Caius Marius 11.3: … ὸν εἶναι τοῖς μεγέθεσι τῶν σωμάτων καὶ τῇ χαροπότητι τῶν ὀμμάτων, καὶ ὅτι Κίμβρους ἐπονομάζουσι Γερμανοὶ τοὺς λῃστάς.

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 3.13·4: … , εὐαναστρόφους μέντοι καὶ πρακτικοὺς καὶ ἀκαταγωνίστους καὶ ὅλως ἐπιτευκτικούς. ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ἅρπαγας, ληστάς, νοθευτάς, κακοπαθεῖς, αἰσχροκερδεῖς, ἀθέους, ἀστόργους, ὑβριστάς, ἐπιβουλευτικούς, κλέπτας, ἐπιόρκους, μιαιφ …

All forms of λῃστής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.