LOGOI

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λοχάω

lochao

lie in wait for, waylay

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λοχ-άω · loch-aō — LSJ

lie in wait for, waylay

lie in wait for, waylay, Τηλέμαχον λοχόωντες 16.369, cf. 4.847; ἦ μέν μιν λοχόωσι 13.425; τὸν δὲ . . οἴκαδʼ ἰόντα λοχῶσιν 14.181; αὐτὸν ἰόντα λοχήσομαι 4.670; ἐλόχησαν τὰς γυναῖκας Hdt. 6.138; σε . . λοχῶσιν . . Ἐρινύες S. Ant. 1075.

2 lie in wait, ambush, in ambush

abs., lie in wait, ambush, ὅθι σφίσιν εἶκε λοχῆσαι Il. 18.520; λοχᾷ ἐπὶ δένδρεον ἀναβάς Hdt. 4.22; πρὸς δόμοις λοχᾷς ἐμοῖς E. El. 225; πρὸς τοῖσι βωμοῖς Pherecr. 141: but mostly in aor. part. with another Verb, ὄφρα . . σὸν παῖδα κατακτείνειε λοχήσας Od. 22.53; λοχήσαντες τὴν νέα εἷλον Hdt. 6.87, cf. 37; λοχήσας . . πολλοὺς διέφθειρεν Th. 1.65, cf. 3.94:—Med., λοχησάμενος Od. 4.388, 463; ἐγγὺς ὁδοῖο λοχησάμενος 13.268; later also λοχώμενος, λελοχημένος, in ambush, A.R. 1.991, 3.7.

3 occupy with an ambuscade

c. acc. loci, occupy with an ambuscade, ἐλόχησαν τὴν ἐν Πηδάσῳ ὁδόν Hdt. 5.121.

4 laying a trap

metaph., οἷον λοχῶντες τὴν πρὸς Ῥωμαίους φιλίαν laying a trap of friendship for them, Plb. 3.40.6.—Rare in good Att. (v. Th. ll. cc.), but freq. in late Prose, as Plb. l.c., D.H. 2.55, al., Plu. Ant. 46:—Pass., Epicur. Nat. 15.22, J. BJ 3.6.2:—Med. only in Ep.

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