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ἐπιδρομ-ή , ἡ,
A.running over, inroad, “κυμάτων” Arist. Mu.400a26 (pl.); onward motion, IGRom.4.503.34 (Pergam.).
2.. metaph., brief notice, Phld.Rh.2.268S.; ἐν τῇ ἐ. τῶν φιλοσόφων in his summary notice of them, D.L.7.48; summary, προειρημένων “λόγων” Corn.Rh.p.389H.; “ἀποδείξεων” Dam.Pr.369; ἐπιτομὰς ἢ συνάψεις “ἢ ἐπιδρομάς” Gal.9.431; “ὡς ἐν ἐπιδρομῇ δεδείχθω” Iamb.in Nic. p.72P.
II.. inroad, raid, attack, Th.4.34, 56; τῷ τειχίσματι ib. 23; ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς ἁρπαγή plundering by means of an inroad, Hdt. 1.6: hence ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς on the spur of the moment, ἐξ ἐ. αἱρέσεις “ποιεῖσθαι” Pl.R.619d; “εἰπεῖν” Plu.Ant.80, cf. Men.Pk.148; cursorily, μνήμην ποιήσασθαι φαύλως καὶ ἐξ ἐ. D.H.Pomp.3 (so “κατ᾽ ἐπιδρομήν” Aps.Rh.p.258H.); μηδὲν ἐξ ἐ. παθεῖν by a sudden attack, D.21.138, cf. D.H.2.3.
III.. office of inspector, “τῆς μητροπόλεως” PFay. 23.2 (ii A.D.).
IV.. a place to which ships run in, landing-place, “Λιβύης . . ἐρήμους ἀξένους τ᾽ ἐπιδρομάς” E.Hel.404; πλοῦν οὔριον . . Ἰλίου “τ᾽ ἐπιδρομάς” Id.IA1597; “τὰς ἐ. τῆς θαλάσσης διαχῶσαι” Phalar.Ep. 62.
V.. flow of blood (to an atrophied part), Hp.Off.24.
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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