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μα?́χ-η , ἡ, (μάχομαι)
A.battle, combat, freq. in Hom., usu. of armies, “μ. καὶ φύλοπις” Il.13.789; “ἐπὶ ἶσα μ. τέτατο πτόλεμός τε” 12.436; “μ. ἐνοπή τε” 12.35; “μάχαι τ᾽ ἀνδροκτασίαι τε” 7.237; sts. of single combat, ib.158,232,263; μ. καὶ δηϊοτής ib.290; “ναῶν ἐν μάχαις” Pi.N.9.34; “μάχαις καὶ ναυμαχίαις” Lys.30.26; “μάχη δορός” A.Ag.439 (lyr.), etc.: with Verbs, μάχην μάχεσθαι fight a battle, Il.15.414, etc.; “θήσονται μ.” 24.402; “μάχας εἰσήλυθον” 2.798; “ἀρτύνθη μ.” 11.216; “μ. ἤγειραν” 17.261; μ. ὀρνύμεν, ὤτρυνον, 9.353, 12.277; “συμφερόμεσθα μάχῃ” 11.736; “πειρᾶτο μάχας” Pi.N.1.43; ἀντιάζειν τινὶ μάχαν ib.67; “σὺν γυναιξὶ τὰς μ. ποιούμενος” S.El.302, cf. X.Cyr.3.3.29; “μάχην συνάψαι ἐμβολαῖς” A.Pers.336; μ. συμβάλλειν τινί engage battle with . . , E. Ba.837; διὰ μάχης τινὶ ἀπικέσθαι, ἔρχεσθαι, ἥκειν, Hdt.1.169,6.9, A. Supp.475; “διὰ μάχης ἐκβαλεῖν τινα” Arist.Pol.1303a35 (so ἐξέπεσον διὰ μάχης ib.34); εἰς μάχην πρός τινα ἐλθεῖν, μολεῖν, E.Ba.636 (troch.), Ph.694; “ἐς μάχην ἐπεξιέναι τινί” Th.2.23; “μάχης γενομένης” Pl.Lg.869c; μάχῃ κρατῆσαι conquer in battle, E.HF612, D.18.193 (with v.l. μάχην）“; νενικήκαμεν τὴν μεγάλην μ.” X.Cyr.7.5.53; “Μιλτιάδης ὁ τὴν ἐν Μαραθῶνι μ. τοὺς βαρβάρους νικήσας” Aeschin.3.181; μάχη τινός battle with an enemy, “Αἴαντος δ᾽ ἀλέεινε μ.” Il.11.542, cf. Hes.Sc.361; “μ. ὑπέρ τινος” Pi.N.7.42; “περί τι” Pl.Lg.919b: pl., strifes, “ἔρις τε . . πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε” Il.1.177; “μάχας ἐν λόγοις ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.Ti.88a, etc.: generally, contention, strife, Id.Ep.352c, etc.; “μάχης ἐάν τις ἄρξηται” SIG1109.72 (ii A. D.); “μ. νομικαί” Ep.Tit.3.9.
2. = ἀγών, contest, as for a prize in the games, Pi.O.8.58 (but ἄεθλα, opp. μάχαι πολέμου, Id.O.2.44).
3. struggle, “μηχανή τε πολλὴ καὶ μ. ἦν περί τινος” X.Cyr. 7.5.38.
II. mode of fighting, way of battle, “ἡ μ. σφέων ἦν ἀπ᾽ ἵππων” Hdt.1.79; “ἐπίστασθαι τὴν μ. τινῶν” Id.7.9.ά, cf. 7.85, X.Cyr.2.1.7.
III. field of battle, interpol. in Id.An.2.2.6, 5.5.4.
IV. in Logic, contradiction, inconsistency, Epict.Ench.52.1, S.E.M.7.392.
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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