μάχη: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=μᾰ́χη, ἡ, [[μάχομαι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[battle]], [[fight]], [[combat]], Hom., etc.; μάχαι ναῶν sea fights, Pind.:—with Verbs, μάχην μάχεσθαι to [[fight]] a [[battle]], Il., [[attic]]; μάχην ἀρτύνειν, ἐγείρειν, ὀρνύμεν, ὀτρύνειν Il.; μάχην συνάπτειν or συμβάλλειν τινί to [[engage]] [[battle]] with one, Aesch., Eur.; also, διὰ μάχης τινὶ ἀπικέσθαι, ἔρχεσθαι, ἥκειν, [[μολεῖν]] Hdt., [[attic]]; μάχην [[νικᾶν]] to win a [[battle]], Xen.:— [[μάχη]] τινός [[battle]] with an [[enemy]], Il., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in plural quarrels, strifes, wranglings, Il., Plat.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> = [[ἀγών]], a [[contest]] for a [[prize]] in the games, Pind.: [[generally]] a [[struggle]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[mode]] of [[fighting]], way of [[battle]], Hdt., Xen.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> a [[field]] of [[battle]], Xen.