maintain mercenary troops
maintain mercenary troops, Th. 7.48, Isoc. 8.46, Aen. Tact. 13.1, D. 11.18, LXX 2 Ma. 10.14, Plu. Apophth. Lac. 2.214d ; ξ. μεγάλας δυνάμεις D.S. 1.67 :—Pass., Aen. Tact. 13.4.
The corpus record
ξενο-τροφέω
xenotropheo
maintain mercenary troops
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Where it lives
- Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
- History 1 · 0.07/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἐξενοτρόφει · exenotrophei Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 10
- ξενοτροφοῦντας · xenotrophountas Thucydides, History 7.48.5 (DIORISIS sentence 5092)
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.