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ἐπιστρατεία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστρατεία

Sense

  1. a march or expedition against

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μαστιγοῦσιν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἑλλανοδίκαι, καὶ διὰ τὸν Λίχαν τοῦτον ἡ κατὰ Ἆγιν βασιλέα ἐπιστρατεία Λακεδαιμονίων ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Ἠλείουσ καὶ ἐντὸσ τῆσ Ἄλτεωσ μάχη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 4:4)
  • εἰρημένα ἐν ἐπιστρατείᾳ τοῦ Μήδου καὶ Βάκιδι ἐν χρησμοῖσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. a march or expedition against

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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