have the command of the sea, to be mastered at sea
have the command of the sea, Th. 7.60:—Pass., to be mastered at sea, X. HG 6.2.8.
The corpus record
ναυκρᾰτ-έω
naukrateo
have the command of the sea
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Where it lives
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ναυκρατήσουσιν · naukratēsousin Thucydides, History 7.60.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5165)
- ναυκρατεῖσθαι · naukrateisthai Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 2564)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.