πάλαισμα
οἵτινες πόλιν μίαν λαβόντες εὐρυπρωκτότεροι πολύ τῆς πόλεος ἀπεχώρησαν ἧς εἷλον τότε → after taking a single city they returned home, with arses much wider than the city they captured
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A bout or fall in wrestling, παρὰ ἓν π. ἔδραμε νικᾶν Hdt.9.33; ἓν μὲν τόδ' ἤδη τῶν τριῶν π. A.Eu.589, cf. Pl.Phdr.256b: in pl., feats of wrestling, Pi.O.9.13, P.8.35, cf. CR43.210 (Asia Minor). 2 struggle, A.Ag.63 (anap.), Eu.776, S.OT880 (lyr.), E.Med.1214; of war, Jul. Or.2.66c; παλαίσμαθ' ἡμῶν ὁ βίος E.Supp.550. 3 trick, 'chip' in wrestling, metaph., Ar.Ra.689, cf. 878; π. δικαστηρίου a trick of the courts, Aeschin.3.205; σόφισμα . . καὶ π. τῶν ἀκουόντων D.H.Rh.8.12; ὦ Θετταλὸν π., addressed to a person, Ath.7.308b. 4 in pl., of works of art, groups of wrestlers, Philostr.Im.2.32.
