προλοχίζειν
From LSJ
Ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. → Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also προλοχίζω): occupy with an ambush
Lexicon Thucydideum
insidiis occupare, to seize by ambush, 2.81.5, 3.110.2,
PASS. 3.112.6.