προλοχίζειν
From LSJ
Ἤθους δὲ βάσανός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις χρόνος → Est moris explorator humani dies → Des menschlichen Charakters Wetzstein ist die Zeit
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.