Ἀκοντιστύς

javelin-hurling

Translated by Jennifer Benedict21 Mar 2001Vetting: high3 revisions

2 words

[Meaning] javelin-throwing.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκοντιστύς· ἡ ἀκόντισις.

Betacode

*)akontistu/s: h( a)ko/ntisis.

Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Hesychius has the accusative case a)kontistu/n (glossed with a)kontismo/n) and, as Latte notes there, it is extracted from Homer, Iliad 23.622.
cf. generally alpha 926.