The corpus record

ναυμᾰχ-έω

naumacheo

fight by sea

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Where it lives

Menexenus 4 · 8.32/10k
History 55 · 3.68/10k
Hellenica 17 · 2.59/10k
Histories 26 · 1.42/10k
Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k

What it meant — LSJ

fight by sea, with, to be in the battle

fight by sea, Hdt. 7.143, al.; τινι with one, Id. 2.161; ἐναντία τῇ πόλει And. 1.101; πρός τινας X. HG 2.1.14; περὶ πατρίδος Hdt. 8.57; ν. τὴν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν, i.e. to be in the battle of Arginusae (v. κρέας 2), Ar. Ra. 191; μὰ τοὺς ἐν Σαλαμῖνι ναυμαχήσαντας D. 18.208, cf. Pl. Mx. 241b, 241d.

2 do battle with

metaph., do battle with, κακοῖς τοσούτοις Ar. V. 479.

In the wild

ἐναυμάχησαν · enaumachēsan Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..22 (DIORISIS sentence 289)
ἐναυμάχησε · enaumachēse Herodotus, Histories 2.161.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2724)
ναυμαχήσαντες · naumachēsantes Herodotus, Histories 5.115.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6142)
ναυμαχῆσαι · naumachēsai Herodotus, Histories 5.86.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5920)
ἐναυμάχεον · enaumacheon Herodotus, Histories 6.14.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6256)
ἐναυμάχεον · enaumacheon Herodotus, Histories 6.15.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6262)

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