The corpus record

τειχομᾰχ-έω

teichomacheo

fight the walls

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Where it lives

History 3 · 0.2/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

τειχομᾰχ-έω · teichomach-eō — LSJ

fight the walls, conduct siege operations, in conducting sieges, defending a wall

fight the walls, i.e. conduct siege operations, Hdt. 9.70, Th. 7.79, X. HG 1.1.14, etc.; τ. τινί Ar. Nu. 481; πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους Plu. Alc. 28; τειχομαχεῖν δυνατοί skilled in conducting sieges, i.e. good engineers, Th. 1.102: perh. of defending a wall, App. Hann. 92.

In the wild

τειχομαχέειν · teichomacheein Herodotus, Histories 9.70.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9784)
τειχομαχεῖν · teichomachein Thucydides, History 1.102.2 (DIORISIS sentence 639)
ἐτειχομάχουν · eteichomachoun Thucydides, History 7.79.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5299)
τειχομαχοῦντες · teichomachountes Thucydides, History 8.103.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6025)
τειχομαχεῖν · teichomachein Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.14 (DIORISIS sentence 26)

Where it came from

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