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στρα^τι^ώτ-ης , ου, ὁ: voc.
A.“στρατιῶτα” Philem.155: (στρατιά):— soldier, Hdt.4.134, al., Cratin.143, IG12.60.12, etc.; “στρατιώτας καταλέγειν” Ar.Ach.1065; ς. μισθωσάμενος, of Pisistratus, Arist.Ath. 15.2; ἄνδρες ς., in a speech, Th.7.61; collectively, in sg., ὁ πολὺς ὅμιλος καὶ ς. Id.6.24; also of soldiers serving on ship-board, Id.2.88.
2. later, professional soldier,= μισθοφόρος, Arist.EN1116b15, cf.Archestr.Fr.61; soldier in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, PEnteux. 54.8 (iii B.C.), OGI86.12 (iii B.C.), PLond.1.142.4 (i A.D.), etc.; “Κάσσανδρος τῶν Ἀπολλωνίου στρατιωτῶν” PCair.Zen.301.1 (iii B.C.).
II. water-lettuce (“ς. ἔνυδρος” Gal.12.131), Pistia Stratiotes, Meno Iatr.6.22, Dsc.4.101; ς. χιλιόφυλλος, Achillea Millefolium, yarrow or milfoil, ib.102.
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 (7):
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1065
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 15.2
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1116b.15
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.134
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.88
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.24
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.61
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