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διαμα?́χ-ομαι , fut. -μαχέσομαι (
A.v.l. for -μαχεσώμεθα aor. subj.) Hdt.9.48:—fight, contend, “σιδήρῳ” E.Supp.678; “εἷς πρὸς ἕνα” Pl.Lg. 833e; opp. λανθάνειν, Id.R.345a; πρός τι v.l. in D.17.18; “περὶ τῆς χώρης τοῖς ἐπιοῦσιν” Hdt.4.11; “περὶ τοῦ πρότερος εἰπεῖν” Ar.Eq.339, cf. Pl.Men.86c; “περὶ τούτου ὡς οὐκ . .” Lys.4.1; “ὑπέρ τινος” Pl.Smp.207b; δ. μὴ μεταγνῶναι ὑμᾶς I resist to the uttermost your change of opinion, Th.3.40; “δ. τὸ μὴ θανεῖν” E.Alc.694.
2. exert oneself, strive earnestly, “περὶ τούτου ὅπως . .” Pl.Prt.325d; “ὅπως μή . .” Id.Grg.502b.
3. in argument, contend or maintain that . ., c. acc. et inf., Id.Tht.158d: with a neg., “δ. τι μὴ εἶναι” Th.3.42; “δ. ὅτι οὐκ ἀπόλλυται” Pl.Phd. 106c; “ὡς οὐ . .” Id.Prm.127e, etc.; also δ. τι carry a point, Id.Sph. 261a.
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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