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ἀνοκωχή , ἡ, redupl. form
A.= ἀνοχή (cf. ὄκωχα pf. of ἔχω), stay, cessation, “κακῶν” Th.4.117; ἀ. νομῆς a stay in the spreading of the ulcer, Aret.SD2.9, cf. 1.8.
2. esp. cessation of arms, truce, δι᾽ ἀνοκωχῆς γίγνεσθαί τινι to be at truce with one, Th.1.40; ἀ. ἐστί τινι πρός τιϝα one party has a truce with another, Id.5.32.
II. hindrance, “τριβὴ καὶ ἀ. τῶν Ἐλλήνων” Id.8.87. (Archaic word used by Th. acc. to D.H.Amm.2.3. Mss. generally have the corrupt form ἀνακωχή, which gave rise to a deriv. “παρὰ τὸ ἄνω τὰς ἀκωκὰς ἔχειν” EM96.52: but Hsch. gives the correct form. Ammon.Diff.19 attempts to distinguish the forms.)
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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