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λοχαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοχαῖος λοχαῖη λοχαῖον

Structure: λοχαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lo/xios,

Sense

  1. clandestine

Examples

  • πολιορκοῦσι δ’ αὐτοῖσ πόλιν μεγάλην ᾗ ὄνομα ἦν Λόχα, καὶ πολλὰ δεινὰ πάσχουσιν, οἱ μὲν Λοχαῖοι προστιθεμένων τῶν κλιμάκων ἐπεκηρυκεύοντο ἐκλείψειν τὴν πόλιν ὑπόσπονδοι, καὶ ὁ Σκιπίων ἀνεκάλει τῇ σάλπιγγι τὴν στρατιάν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. clandestine

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

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