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ἀξιό-μα^χος , ον,
A.a match for another in battle or war, “τινί” Hdt.7.157, Th.8.38; “πρός τινα” Plu.Cat.Ma.12, etc.: abs., Hdt. 3.19, 8.63, Th.8.80, Aen.Tact.2.5.
2. c. inf., sufficient in strength or number, “νέες ἀξιόμαχοι τῆσι Αἰγινητέων συμβαλεῖν” Hdt.6.89; “νεῶν . . ἀξιομάχων δέκεσθαι τὸν ἐπιόντα” Id.7.138, cf. 101; “ἀξιόμαχόν τι δρᾶν” D.C.43.4. Adv. “-χως, τινὶ συνεστάναι” Plu.Sull.19.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.19
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.89
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.138
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.157
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.63
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.38
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.80
    • Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 12
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 19
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 43.4
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