The corpus record

ἐλλοχ-άω

ellochao

lie in ambush

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Where it lives

Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k

What it meant

ἐλλοχ-άω · elloch-aō — LSJ

lie in ambush

lie in ambush (λόχος), Pl. Tht. 165d:—Med., Phalar. Ep. 5.

II lie in wait for

lie in wait for, τινά Pl. Smp. 213b, Ael. NA 6.4.

III to be filled with lurking

Pass., ἐλλοχᾶσθαι κακοῖς to be filled with lurking mischiefs, Alciphr. 2.3.

In the wild

ἐλλοχῶν · ellochōn Plato, Symposium 213 (DIORISIS sentence 798)
ἐλλοχῶν · ellochōn Plato, Theaetetus 165

Where it came from

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