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στρα^τεία , Ion. -ηΐη, ἡ, （στρατεύω)
A.expedition, campaign, στρατηΐην ποιεῖσθαι ἐς . ., ἐπὶ . . , Hdt.1.71, 171, etc.; “πολλὰς ς. ἐποιήσαντο” Th.2.11; “ς. ἐστράτευσ᾽ ὀλεθρίαν” E.Supp.116; “ς. ἡμῖν εἰς Ποτείδαιαν ἐγένετο” Pl.Smp.219e, cf. IG12(2).645.15 (Nesus), etc.; ἀπὸ στρατείας coming from war, after service done, A.Ag.603, Eu.631; κατὰ τὴν Σιτάλκου ς. about the time of his expedition, Th.2.101; “εἰς δὲ ς. πάντας Ἀργείους ἄγων” E.Supp.229; ἐπὶ στρατείας εἶναι to be on foreign service, Pl.Smp.220c (codd., στρατιᾶς Cobet, Burnet); so “ἐν στρατείᾳ ὄντας” X.Cyr.5.2.19; ἐν τῇ ς. PEnteux.48.3 (iii B.C.); “παραγγέλλειν τινὶ ς. κατὰ γῆν” X.HG7.1.13; “ἐκδήμους ς. οὐκ ἐξῇσαν” Th.1.15; στρατείαν ξυνεξελθεῖν ib.3; “ς. δ᾽ οὐ φέρει περιουσίαν” Men.382, cf. OGI5.44 (Scepsis, iv B.C.); “τῆς ς. γιγνομένης ἐκ καταλόγου” Arist.Ath.26.1; freq. in pl., military service, warfare, Pl.R. 404a; πρὸς ταῖς αὑτοῦ ς. in addition to the campaigns which he is bound to serve, Id.Lg.878d; “ἐν ταῖς ς. μισθοφορεῖν” Arist.Ath.27.2; “ἀπὸ ς. ἱππικῶν” IGRom.3.58 (Bithynia); “στρατείας στρατεύεσθαι” IG22.505.54; ἀφειμένος στρατείας, = Lat. exauctoratus, Plu.2.274a.
2. ς. ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις levy of those liable to serve in the year of such and such archons, Harp. s.v., cf. Arist.Ath.53.7.
3. ς. ἡ ἐν τοῖς μέρεσιν expedition for special service, to train the young soldiers next after serving as περίπολοι, Aeschin.2.168, cf. Suid. s.v. τερθρεία.
4. military discipline, ἡ ἀκριβὴς ς. D.C.78.36.
5. military appointment, “ἐπώλησε στρατείας” Id.72.12.—στρατιά is a constant v.l., and is sts. undoubtedly used= στρατεία (campaign), v. στρατιά 11 and cf. Sch.Ar.Th.835 (= Eup.369); but στρατεία= army, expeditionary force is very rare, E.IA495 (restd. in Rh.263 (lyr.)): in Inscrr. στρατεία never = army, but both -εία (IG22.1132.14, SIG398.2 (Cos, iii B.C.), al.) and -ιά (q.v.) = campaign.
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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