πόλεμος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πολέμου, ὁ (from ΠΑΛΩ, [[πολέω]], to [[turn]], to [[range]] [[about]], [[whence]] Latin pello, bellum; ([[but]] cf. Fick 1:671; Vanicek, 513)) (from Homer down), the Sept. for מִלְחָמָה;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]],<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[war]]: מִלְחָמָה עָשָׂה followed by אֵת or עִם (πόλεμον ποιεῖν [[μετά]] τίνος, L omits; WH Tr marginal [[reading]] brackets the [[clause]]); [[μετά]], I:2d.).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[fight]], a [[battle]] ([[more]] [[precisely]] [[μάχη]]; "in [[Homer]] ([[where]] Iliad 7,174it is used [[even]] of [[single]] [[combat]]) and [[Hesiod]] the [[sense]] of [[battle]] prevails; in Attic [[that]] of [[tear]]" (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]]); cf. Trench, § 86:and (in [[partial]] [[modification]]) Schmidt, [[chapter]] 138,5,6): a [[dispute]], [[strife]], [[quarrel]]: πόλεμοι καί μάχαι, [[Sophocles]] El. 219; [[Plato]], [[Phaedo]], p. 66c.).