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συμμα^χ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for alliance, θεοὶ ξ. the gods invoked at the making of an alliance, Th.3.58; ς. αἵρεσις, νόμος, etc., Plb.9.23.7, Plu.CG5, etc.; Σ . [λόγος] of Isoc.,= de Pace, Arist.Rh.1418a32.
II. τὸ συμμαχικόν the allies, allied forces, Hdt.6.9, 9.106, Ar.Ec.193, Th.3.91, 4.77; τὰ ς. the forces of the alliance, X.Cyr.3.3.12.
2. -κόν, τό, treaty of alliance, Th.5.6; funds of the alliance, συντελεῖν εἰς τὸ ς. Arist.Ath.39.2.
3. of a standard authorized by a league, “ἀργυρίου συμμαχικὰ τάλαντα πεντήκοντα” SIG826 D passim (Delph., ii B.C.).
III. Adv. -κῶς like an ally, Isoc.4.104, 8.134, Plb.15.24.4.
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 (13):
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 193
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 39.2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.106
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 104
    • Isocrates, On the Peace, 134
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.91
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.58
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.77
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.3.12
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.24.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.23.7
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.6
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