The corpus record

ναυλοχ-έω

naulocheo

lie in a harbour

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

lie in a harbour, creek, lie in wait

lie in a harbour or creek, esp. lie in wait in order to sally out on passing ships, abs. in Hdt. 7.189, 192, 8.6, E. IA 249 (lyr.):— Med., ναυλοχεῖσθαί τινι D.H. 1.44 (s. v.l.).

2 lie in wait for

c. acc., lie in wait for, Th. 7.4.

In the wild

ἐναυλόχει · enaulochei Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 2 (DIORISIS sentence 84)
ναυλοχέοντες · naulocheontes Herodotus, Histories 7.189.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8168)
ἐναυλόχεον · enaulocheon Herodotus, Histories 7.193.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8185)
ναυλοχέειν · naulocheein Herodotus, Histories 8.6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8484)
ναυλοχεῖν · naulochein Thucydides, History 7.4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 4792)

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.

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