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φρουρά , Ion. φροντ-ρή , ἡ: (v. φρουρός fin.):—
A.look-out, watch, guard, as a duty, A.Ag.2, Hdt.2.30, IG12.3.26, etc.; “ἐς φ. δόμων” E.Or. 1252; “φρουρὰν ἐτάξαντ᾽ ἐν δόμοις” Id.Andr.1099; φρουρὰν ἄζηλον ὀχήσω shall keep unenviable watch, A.Pr.143 (anap.); ὄμματος φρουρά my watchful eye, S.Tr.226; φρουρᾶς ᾁδων singing while on guard, to keep oneself awake or while away the time, Ar.Nu.721 (anap.); “τοῖς . . πιστοτέροις . . διετέτακτο ἡ φ.” Pl.Criti.117d.
2. a watch of the night, “ἡ νυκτερινὴ φ.” Hdn.3.11.6; v.l. in E.Rh.5 (anap.).
3. prison, ward, Pl.Phd.62b, Grg.525a.
II. of persons set to watch, guard, garrison, Hdt.6.26, 7.59, A.Ag.301, Th.3.51, IG22.28.14, etc.; esp. of frontier-posts, X.HG6.5.24, etc.; “στρατειῶν καὶ φρουρῶν” Lys.16.18; ἐξήλθομεν εἰς Πάνακτον φρουρᾶς προγραφείσης being ordered on garrison-duty, D.54.3; “τὰ κύκλῳ κατέχειν ἁρμοσταῖς καὶ φρουραῖς” Id.18.96; “φρουρὰν ὑποδέχεσθαι” Id.58.38.
2. at Sparta, a body of men destined for service, φρουρὰν φαίνειν proclaim or order out a levy, 'call out the ban', of the ephors and kings, X.HG 3.2.23, 6.4.17; ἐπί τινας ib.4.7.1, etc.; εἰδότες φρουρὰν πεφασμένην ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτούς ib.5.1.29; φ. ἐξάγειν ib.2.4.29.
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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