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λοχίζω ,
A.= λοχάω, lie in wait for:—Pass., λοχισθέντες διεφθάρησαν they were cut to pieces by falling into an ambuscade, Th.5.115, cf. D.C.41.51.
2. place in ambush, “λοχίζει ἐς ὁδὸν κοίλην ὁπλίτας” Th. 3.107; “λ. ἐν τόπῳ” D.H.2.55: c. dat. loci, Id.3.64 (nisi leg. <ἐν> χωρίοις）; λοχίσαντος is prob. l. in Plu.Oth.7.
3. beset with an ambuscade, “λελοχισμένον χωρίον” D.H.1.79.
II. distribute men in companies (λόχοι), and so, put them in order of battle, Hdt.1.103, Aen. Tact.1.5, Plu.Sull.27:—Pass., to be so distributed, Agatharch.Fr. Hist.17J., D.H.2.14, etc.
III. λοχίζει: ἐπιβουλεύεται, Hsch.
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, 1.103
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.107
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.115
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 27
    • Plutarch, Otho, 7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.79
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.14
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.55
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.64
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 41.51
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