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ἐπιβα?́τ-ης , ου, ὁ,
A.one who mounts or embarks:
1.. ἐπιβάται, οἱ, soldiers on board ship, fighting men, opp. the rowers and seamen, marines, Hdt.6.12, 7.100, Th.3.95, Plb. 1.51.2, etc.
b.. merchant on board ship, supercargo, D.34.51, 56.10.
c.. passenger on ship, D.Chr.1.29, al., Plu.in Hes.8.
d.. subordinate officer in the Spartan navy, Th.8.61, X.HG1.3.17, Hell. Oxy.17.4.
2.. fighting man in a chariot, Pl.Criti.119b; on an elephant, Arr.An.5.17.3.
3.. rider, Arist.EN1106a20, Luc.Zeux. 10.
4.. male quadruped, Gp.16.21.9.
5.. heel, Hsch.
6.. middle finger, [Ruf.] Onom.App.p.600R.
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 (13):
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1106a.20
    • Demosthenes, Against Phormio, 51
    • Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus, 10
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.12
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.100
    • Plato, Critias, 119b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.95
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.61
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.3.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.51.2
    • Lucian, Zeuxis, 10
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 5.17.3
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 1.29
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