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πολεμέω , Ion. Iterat.
A.“πολεμέεσκε” Acus.22J.: fut. “-ήσω” X.An.2.6.5: pf. “πεπολέμηκα” Arist.Rh.1396a11, Ephipp.9:—Med., aor. ἐπολεμησάμην （κατ-) Plb.11.31.6:—Pass., “πολεμηθήσομαι” Id.2.41.14, etc.; πολεμήσομαι in pass. sense, Th.1.68,8.43, D.23.110: aor. “ἐπολεμήθην” Th.5.26: pf. πεπολέμημαι （κατα-) Id.6.16: (πόλεμος):— to be at war or make war, Id.1.140, etc.; ἀφ᾽ ἡσυχίας πολεμῆσαι ib. 124; opp. εἰρήνην ἄγειν, Id.5.76; τινι with one, Hdt.6.37, IG22.236.19, etc.; “πολεμοῦσαι πρὸς ἀλλήλας πόλεις” X.Vect.5.8, cf. Pl.Lg. 686b, SIG182.12 (Argos, iv B.C.), etc.; μετά τινος or σύν τινι in conjunction with . . , X.HG7.1.27, An.2.6.5; “περὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς π.” Hdt. 6.98.
2. fight, do battle, “ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων” Pl.Prt.350a; ἀπὸ [καμήλων] X.Cyr.7.1.49; but ἀφ᾽ ὅτου πολεμήσωμεν what our means of war are, And.3.16.
3. generally, quarrel, wrangle with one, X.Cyr.1.3.11; “π. χρείᾳ” S.OC191 (anap.), cf. E.Ion1386; “τισὶν ὑπέρ τινος” D.18.31: metaph. of disease, Gal.1.103.
II. later c. acc., make war upon, “τὴν πόλιν” Din.1.36 codd.; “τὰς Ἀθήνας” D.S.4.61, cf. 13.84, 14.37, LXX 1 Ma.5.30, etc.; “τὰς Συρακούσας” Plb.1.15.10, etc.: metaph., “τὰς σταφυλάς” Alciphr.3.22:—Pass., also in early writers, have war made upon one, to be treated as enemies, Th.1.37, X. HG7.4.20; “ὑπό τινων” Isoc.5.49; “καὶ αὐτοὶ . . ἐκ πολλοῦ πολεμούμενοι” D.18.43; “αὐτὸς μὲν πολεμεῖν ὑμῖν, ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν δὲ μὴ πολεμεῖσθαι” Id.9.9; “-ηθείσης τῆς χώρας” OGI748.8 (Cyzicus, iii B.C.).
2. c. acc. cogn., “πόλεμον π.” Pl.R.551d, Arist.l.c., etc.:—Pass., [“πολέμους] τοὺς ἐπὶ Θησέως πολεμηθέντας” X.Mem.3.5.10; “κατὰ θάλατταν ὁ π. ἐπολεμεῖτο” Id.HG5.1.1, cf. Pl.R.600a; ὅσα ἐπολεμήθη whatever hostilities took place, X.An.4.1.1; “τὰ περὶ Πύλον κατὰ κράτος ἐπολεμεῖτο” Th.4.23, cf. 3.6.—The form used by Poets is πολεμίζω.
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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