λῃσταῖς (lestais)

λῃσταῖς is an Ancient Greek form of λῃστής, meaning “robber, pirate”.

It can also be a form of ληιστής, “robber”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of ληιστός, “(to be) plundered”.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.50: … αὐτῷ συλλαβέσθαι, τὸ ἱκανόν σοι ποιήσω, φησίν, ἐὰν παρακλήτους πέμψῃς καὶ αὐτὸς μὴ ἔλθῃς. πλέων μετὰ πονηρῶν λῃσταῖς περιέπεσε· τῶν δέ, ἀπολώλαμεν, εἰπόντων, ἐὰν γνωσθῶμεν, ἐγὼ δέ γε, φησίν, ἐὰν μὴ γνωσθῶ. τὴν οἴησιν ἔλεγε προ …

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.