The corpus record

ναυμᾰχ-ία

naumachia · ἡ

sea-fight, in a sea-fight

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Where it lives

De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
De Interpretatione 4 · 6.43/10k
Menexenus 3 · 6.24/10k
History 81 · 5.42/10k
Hellenica 30 · 4.56/10k
Athenian Constitution 7 · 4.3/10k
Histories 61 · 3.32/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sea-fight, in a sea-fight

sea-fight, Hdt. 6.14, al., Th. 1.13, etc.; ν. ποιέεσθαι Hdt. 8.49; ναυμαχίῃ κρατήσας, ἑσσωθέντες, Id. 3.39, 6.92; ναυμαχίᾳ νικᾶν X. HG 1.6.2; ναυμαχίας νενικήκατε ib. 1.1.28; ναυμαχίαν ἀπώσασθαί τινα in a sea-fight, Th. 1.32; πολλὰς ν. νεναυμαχηκώς Lys. 7.41; τὴν περὶ Σαλαμῖνα ν. τῶν Ἑλλήνων πρὸς τοὺς βαρβάρους Pl. Lg. 707b.

In the wild

ναυμαχία · naumachia Aristotle, Ars Poetica 23
ναυμαχίαν · naumachian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..23 (DIORISIS sentence 301)
ναυμαχίας · naumachias Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..23 (DIORISIS sentence 294)
ναυμαχίαν · naumachian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..27 (DIORISIS sentence 334)
ναυμαχίᾳ · naumachiai Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..33 (DIORISIS sentence 408)
ναυμαχίαν · naumachian Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..34 (DIORISIS sentence 416)

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