A.one who stones, E.Tr.1039; τὸν Κασσανδρέων λευστῆρα their oppressor, Ael.NA5.15; so perh. in Hdt.5.67, where the oracle tells Cleisthenes Ἄδρηστον μὲν εἶναι Σικυωνίων βασιλέα, ἐκεῖνον δὲ λευστῆρα (or perh. a mere stone-thrower, i.e. ψιλός: Suid., quoting Ael.Fr.115, makes it Pass., = ὁ καταλευσθῆναι ἄξιος).
λευστήρ , ῆρος, ὁ, (λεύω)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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