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στρα^τός , ὁ, Aeol. στρότος Sapph.Supp.5.1:—
A.army, host. “ἀνὰ στρατόν” Il.1.53,384, al.; κατὰ ς. ib.318, al.; “ἐπὶ δεξιόφιν παντὸς στρατοῦ” 13.308, cf. 326; “κατὰ ς. εὐρὺν Ἀχαιῶν” 1.229, al.; “ἐνὶ στρατῷ” 14.371; “πόλιν ἀμφὶ δύω στρατοὶ ἥατο λαῶν” 18.509; Ep. gen. “στρατόφι” 10.347; ς. ἀνδρῶν a military force, Hdt.1.53; without ἀ., SIG1 (Abu Simbel, vi B.C.); of a naval force, “ς. ναυβάτας” A.Ag.987 (lyr.); “χιλιόναυς” E.Or.352 (anap.); “νηΐτης” Th.4.85; “ναυτικός” Id.7.71, A.Ag.634; ς. ἰππήων, πέσδων, νάων, Sapph. l.c.; in Prose it is to be supplied with ὁ πεζός, ὁ ναυτικός, Hdt.8.130, etc., cf. 7.124 and “πεζὸς στρατός” A.Pers. 728 (troch.).
2. the commons, people,= λαός, δῆμος, opp. οἱ σοφοί, Pi.P.2.87, cf. O.9.95, A.Eu.683,762, S.El.749.
3. band or body of men, as of the Amphictyons, Pi.P.10.8; of the Centaurs, ib.2.46; of the Amazons and Arimaspi, A.Pr.723,804: metaph., “ἐριβρόμου νεφέλας ς. ἀμείλιχος” Pi.P.6.12.
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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