Definition of Latron

1. a robber [n -S] - See also: robber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latron

latrants
latrappite
latrate
latrated
latrating
latration
latrations
latred
latreutical
latria
latrias
latrine
latrines
latrociny
latrodectism
latron (current term)
latrons
latrophilin
latrophilins
latrorse
latrotoxin
latrotoxins
latrunculin
latrunculins
lats
latte
latte factor
latte macchiato
latten
lattens

Literary usage of Latron

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1880)
"Just at the entrance into Wady 'Aly is latron, a wretched hamlet, the home, according to ecclesiastical tradition, of Disma, the penitent thief, ..."

2. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1859)
"The monks say that this latron was the city of the penitent thief, whom they call Disma, and who, ... Hence the name of the place, latron or Ladrone—robber. ..."

3. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"Leaving latron at 8.15, we struck down at once by a steep descent to the bed of Wady 'Aly, where a brook was flowing; and then, ascending again, ..."

4. Biblical Researches in Palestine, 1838-52: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838 by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"... seems to fix it at Soba.5 To all the circumstances thus enumerated the elevated and isolated Tell of latron well corresponds.8 Leaving latron at 8.15, ..."

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