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πολέμ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Supp.1192, Ar.Av.344 (lyr.):—
A.of or belonging to war, “κάματοι” Pi.P.2.19; “ὅπλα” Expl.Arch. de Délos 11.140; “τὰ π.” war and its business, Hdt.5.78, Th.4.80 (s.v.l.), etc.; “παρασκευάζεσθαι τὰ π.” Id.1.18.
II. more freq. of or like an enemy, hostile, “ἄνδρες” Pi. P.1.80; “χείρ” Id.N.4.55; “χθών” A.Th.588; δόρυ ib.216, etc.; “ἄνδρα π. ἐχθρόν τε” S.Ph.1302; π. δυσμενῆ τε ib.1323; π. τινί hostile to one, Hdt.1.4, E.Hec.1138; “π. πῦρ νεύροις” Hp.Art.11.
b. freq. as Subst., enemy, Hdt.1.87, Pi.P.1.15, etc.; “οἱ π.” the enemy, Th.1.84, 2.43, etc.
c. τὸ φύσει π. natural hostility, Id.4.60; τὸ π. τῶν Ἀθηναίων towards them, Id.5.11.
2. generally, opposed, adverse, “δύο . . ἐόντα -ώτατα” Hdt. 7.47; δύο . . ἔτι πολεμιώτερα (sc. γῆ καὶ θάλασσα) ib.49; “τὸ ἔλαιον ταῖς θριξὶ -ώτατον ταῖς τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων” most hurtful, Pl.Prt.334b; “πολεμία ἡ ὀσμὴ τοῖς ὄφεσιν” Arist.HA612a29.
III. of or from the enemy, “φόβος” A.Th.270; “φρυκτοί” Th.2.94; “φίλια καὶ π. ναυάγια” Lys.2.38; “τριήρεις” IG22.29.15; πολέμια, τά, enemy's wares, contraband, Ar.Ach. 912; ἡ π. (sc. γῆ, χώρα) the enemy's country, X.Cyr.3.3.16, etc., cf. S.Aj.819.
IV. Adv. -ίως in hostile manner, “φιλίως, οὐ π.” Th.3.65, cf. 66, etc.; “π. ἔχειν τινί” X.Cyn.7.11: Sup. “-ιώτατα, διακείμενος” SIG741.19 (Epist. Mithrid., i B.C.).—πολέμιος is older than πολεμικός, being always used by Pi. and Trag., and mostly by Hdt. and Th.; in X. and later writers, πολέμιος is mostly used in the sense of hostile, πολεμικός in that of warlike, skilled in war.
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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