make a ditch
make a ditch, Pl. Lg. 760e, 778e, X. HG 5.2.4; τάφρους τ. Aeschin. 3.236: c. acc., τὰ ἔσωθεν Aen.Tact. 33.4.
The corpus record
ταφρ-εύω
taphreuo
make a ditch
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Where it lives
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ταφρεύοντάς · taphreuontas Plato, Laws 761
- ταφρεύσοντας · taphreusontas Plato, Laws 779
- ταφρευόντων · taphreuontōn Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1996)
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.