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λάθρῃ [α_^], Att. λάθρᾳ , Adv., (λανθάνω)
A.secretly, by stealth, “ὁ δέ οἱ παρελέξατο λάθρῃ” Il.2.515; “ἀνήρ, ὃς ἐμίσγετο λάθρῃ” Od.15.430; λάθρῃ κτείναντες treacherously, 17.80; ἀλλά τε λάθρῃ γυῖα βαρύνεται imperceptibly, Il.19.165: in Trag. and Att., S.Aj.1137, OT386, Ar.Ra.746, Th.4.39, Pl.R.347b, etc.
2. c. gen., λάθρῃ τινός unknown to one, “λάθρῃ Λαομέδοντος” Il.5.269; “λάθρῃ τῶν ἄλλων στρατηγῶν” Hdt.8.112, cf. 9.90, S.OT787, OC354, Ar.V.347, X.An.1.3.8.—Freq. written λάθρα, λάθρη in codd. and Pap., but λάθραι (i.e. λάθρᾳ) in UPZ19.28 (ii B. C.) and in some of the best codd., as the Laurentian of Sophocles, also in POxy.16 of Th. l. c. (i A. D.):—other forms are
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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