The corpus record

λῃστ-εύω

lesteuo

practise robbery

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Where it lives

First Philippic 1 · 3.05/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
History 6 · 0.4/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

λῃστ-εύω · lēist-euō — LSJ

practise robbery, piracy

practise robbery or piracy, Th. 7.18, D. 4.23; ἐν τῇ γῇ καὶ ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ D.C. 36.3.

2 spoil, plunder, is infested by robbers

c. acc., spoil, plunder, Th. 4.45, App. Pun. 5, etc.:—Pass., Th. 4.2, 5.14, D.S. l.c.; λῃστεύεται ἡ ὁδός is infested by robbers, Arr. Epict. 4.1.91.

In the wild

λῃστεύειν · lēisteuein Demosthenes, First Philippic 23 (DIORISIS sentence 70)
λῃστεύει · lēisteuei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5030)
λῃστευθῆναι · lēisteuthēnai Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6038)
λῃστεύεται · lēisteuetai Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6023)
λῃστεύειν · lēisteuein Septuaginta, Esdras I 4
ἐλῃστεύοντο · elēisteuonto Thucydides, History 4.2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2544)

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