A.fought about, fought for, “ταῖσι φυλαῖς” Ar.Av. 1404; τοῖς πολλοῖς [ὕδωρ] Th.7.84 ; [πενία] ἥκιστα περιμάχητον not a thing one would fight for, X.Smp.3.9, cf. Pl.R.521a, Lg.678e ; “δυναστεία ὑπὸ πάντων ἐρωμένη καὶ π. γεγενημένη” Isoc.8.65, cf. 7.24, 10.17 ; τὰ π. ἀγαθά such as are matters of contention, highly prized, Arist.EN 1169a21, cf. Pol.1271b8, Rh.1363a8, Epicur.Sent. Vat.45 : Sup. -ότατος Isoc.9.40, Plu.Lyc.26 : in Ar.Th.319, πόλις π., prob. with collat. sense of fought around, surrounded by battle.
περιμάχ-ητος [α^], ον,
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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