καταδρομή, ἡ,
inroad, raid, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐνέδραι καὶ κ. [[ [prev. author] 5.56; καταδρομὰς ποιεῖσθαι [prev. author] 7.27, etc.; κ. γενομένης 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.28; ὥσπερ κ. ἐποιήσω ἐπὶ τὸν λόγον μου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 472a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; charge, of troops in battle, [[ LXX.2Mac.5.3 ] LXX]; assault, [[ PRein. 18.19(_plural_, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, attack, invective, κ. μέλλει περὶ ἐμοῦ ποιεῖσθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.135, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 3; κατά τινος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.23.1; ἐν καταδρομῆς μέρει λέγεται περί τινος 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.43. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II recourse, κ. γίγνεται ἐπί.. [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 25.15. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III lurking-place, lair, den, δακέτου [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.9, compare 5.49 (_plural_); ὕπαντροι ἢ λοχμώδεις κ. [prev. work] 9.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.2 perhaps = cryptoporticus, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4.159.23 (from Cyzicus). ] Refs]