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γνωσι^-μα^χέω ,
A.fight with one's own opinion (“τῇ προτέρᾳ γνώμῃ μάχεσθαι” Phryn.PSp.59 B.), or recognize one's own fighting power (as compared with the enemy): hence, give way, submit, Hdt.3.25, 7.130, E.Heracl.706 (anap.), Ar.Av.555, D.H.3.57; γ. μὴ εἶναι ὁμοῖοι give way and confess that . . , Hdt.8.29.
b. admit one's error, Isoc.5.7, POxy.1119.20 (iii A. D.), 71 ii 14 (iv A. D.).
II. in later Prose, contend obstinately, in argument, Ph.1.526, al.; “γνωσιμαχήσαντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους” D.H.9.1 (s. v. l.): abs., to be at variance, Hp.Ep.27.
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 (8):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 555
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 706
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.25
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.130
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.29
    • Isocrates, To Philip, 7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.57
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.1
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