hostage

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. ὅμηρος, ὁ or ἡ (Eur., Orestes 1189), V. ῥύσιον, τό.

be a hostage, v.: P. ὁμηρεύειν.

take as a hostage, v.: V. ὁμηρεύειν (acc.) (Eur., Rhesus 434), ῥυσιάζειν (acc.).

not to be seized as hostage, adj.: V. ἀρρυσίαστος.

they wished any prisoner they took to serve as a hostage for their friends within: P. ἐβούλοντο σφίσιν εἴ τινα λάβοιεν ὑπάρχειν ἀντὶ τῶν ἔνδον (Thuc., 11, 5).