A.make war for or in defence of, “τῆς χώρας” Isoc.14.33; “τῶν ἄλλων” Plb.2.48.1, etc.; “τισὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς” with . . for . . , D.H.6.49; ὑπὲρ [τῆς πόλεως] Pl.R.429b, cf.OGI56.12(Canopus, iii B.C.): abs., οἱ προπολεμοῦντες the guards or defenders of a country, Pl.R.423a; τὸ προπολεμοῦν ib.442b, 547d, Arist.Pol.1279b3; τὸ προπολεμῆσον the body intended to act as guards, ib.1291a7.
προπολεμ-έω ,
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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