δραπέτης

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οἵτινες πόλιν μίαν λαβόντες εὐρυπρωκτότεροι πολύ τῆς πόλεος ἀπεχώρησαν ἧς εἷλον τότεafter taking a single city they returned home, with arses much wider than the city they captured

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Full diacritics: δρᾱπέτης Medium diacritics: δραπέτης Low diacritics: δραπέτης Capitals: ΔΡΑΠΕΤΗΣ
Transliteration A: drapétēs Transliteration B: drapetēs Transliteration C: drapetis Beta Code: drape/ths

English (LSJ)

ου, Ion. δρηπέτης, εω, ὁ, (διδράσκω, δρᾶναι)

   A runaway, βασιλέος from the king, Hdt.3.137; esp. runaway slave, δούλοισι, καὶ τοῦτο δρηπέτῃσι Id.6.11, cf. Ar.Ach.1187, Herod. 3.13, etc.; δ. ἀνήρ S.Fr.63.    2 Adj., ποὺς δ. E.Or.1498 (lyr.), cf. Aeschin.3.152; βίος δ. fugitive life, AP10.87 (Pall.); οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον . . μεθείς no skulker's lot, i. e. not a lump of earth which would fall in pieces, of the lot of Cresphontes, S.Aj.1285.    II fem. δρᾱπέτις, ιδος, Luc.Asin.25: as Adj., στέγη a home whose occupants are shifting, S.Fr.174; ψυχή AP12.80 (Mel.); μέλισσαι Ael.Ep.5; Δραπέτιδες, title of play by Cratinus.