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ἔλα^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.driving away, banishing, “τῶν ἐναγῶν” Th.1.139, Ph.1.140; ἔ. βοσκημάτων driving of them away as booty, Plu.Rom.7.
2. (sc. στρατοῦ) march, expedition, “ἐπὶ Σκύθας” Hdt.4.1, etc.; “ἔλασιν ποιέεσθαι” Id.7.37; also, procession, X.Cyr.8.3.34; ἡ ἅλαδε ἔ. IG22.847.20.
3. (sc. ἵιππου) riding, X.Eq.9.6, Eq.Mag.8.2, Aristaenet.1.8; charge of horse, D.H.6.12, Plu.Sull.19.
b. driving a chariot, Luc. DDeor.25.2.
4. (“ἐλαύνω” 11) striking, Apollon.Lex. s.v. ἐλαύνωσι.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.1
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.37
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.3.34
    • Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander, 8.2
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 9.6
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.139
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 19
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 7
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 11
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 25.2
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.12
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