λῃστ-ής, οῦ, ὁ,
Ionic dialect ληϊστής, Doric dialect λᾳστής, (ληΐς, ληΐζομαι) robber, pirate, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 766, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.23, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to κλέπτης, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 351c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially by sea, buccaneer, later πειρατής, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.138, etc.; λῃστοῦ βίον ζῆν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 507e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ληϊστὴς κατεστήκεε Καρχηδονίων he began a course of piracies upon them, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.17, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 8, 6.4; οἱ λ. αὑτοὺς ποριστὰς καλοῦσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1405a25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of irregular troops, [[ “IG” 12(2).526 (from Eresos). ] Refs]
__II metaphorically, λ. ἐναργὴς τῆς ἐμῆς τυραννίδος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 535; Κύπριδος 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 1143 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λῃστὰ λογισμοῦ, of love, [[ “APl.” 4.198 (1st c.AD(?): Maecius Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]