The corpus record

μάχῐμ-ος

machimos

fit for battle, warlike

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Where it lives

Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 5 · 3.76/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
Histories 15 · 0.82/10k
Politics 5 · 0.77/10k
History 9 · 0.6/10k
Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

fit for battle, warlike, a fighting man, effective force, warrior caste, native troops

fit for battle, warlike, ἐπειδὴ μ. εἶ since youʼre a fighting man, Ar. Av. 1368; αἱ μάχιμοι μυριάδες Hdt. l.c.; τὸ μ. the effective force, Th. 6.23, X. Cyr. 5.4.46; τὸ τῆς πόλεως μ. Pl. Lg. 830c (but ἀνέωνται ἐς τὸ μ. = ἐς πόλεμον Hdt. 2.165); μ. γένη Pl. Mx. 240a; τὸ μ. γένος Id. Ti. 24a, cf. Arist. Pol. 1268a36; τὸ μ. (sc. ἔθνος) Pl. Criti. 110c; esp. in Egypt, οἱ μ. τῶν Αἰγυπτίων the warrior caste, Hdt. 2.141, cf. 164; so later, of native troops, freq. in Pap., PTeb. 61 (a). 109 (ii B. C.), e

= sq., Gloss.

II disputable

disputable, S.E. M. 8.45.

In the wild

μαχίμους · machimous Aeschylus, Agamemnon 122–124
μαχιμώτατοί · machimōtatoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1116b (DIORISIS sentence 924)
μάχιμοι · machimoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1117a (DIORISIS sentence 942)
μαχίμων · machimōn Aristotle, Politics 1268a (DIORISIS sentence 613)
μάχιμον · machimon Aristotle, Politics 1268a (DIORISIS sentence 612)
μαχίμοις · machimois Aristotle, Politics 1268a (DIORISIS sentence 614)

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