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διακατέχω ,
A.hold fast, Apollon.Cit.1, Ruf.Anat.4; hold in the mouth, Heraclid. Tarent. ap. Gal.12.958; of splinters of bone, Aët. 15.14; keep in check, “ἐπιβολάς” Plb.2.51.2, etc.
II. hold in possession, ib.70.3; inhabit, ib.17.5; occupy, hold, LXXJu.4.7(6), Onos. 18; “ξενικοῖς ὅπλοις τὴν πόλιν” D.S.14.32; δ. ἐπαρχείαν, = Lat. obtinere provinciam, OGI441.108; ἱερωσύνην Decr. ap. J.AJ14.10.4: of the head of a school, [“σχολὴν] δυ᾽ ἔτη” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.100M., cf. p.108M.
III. keep on foot, “τὸν πόλεμον” D.S.15.82.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.32
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.82
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 14.10.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.51.2
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 18
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