μάχομαι [ᾰ],
Ionic dialect present optative μαχέοιτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.272, μαχέοιντο [prev. work] 344 (variant{μαχέονται})] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle μαχεόμενος variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104 (elsewhere μαχόμενος, 9.75, +others)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect μαχειόμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.471, μαχεούμενος 11.403, 24.113 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Epic dialect imperfect μαχέσκετο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.140 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future μαχήσομαι [[ 23.621, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.209 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μαχέσομαι, δια-μαχεσόμεθα (as variant) [[ [prev. author] 9.48 ] Refs]; also in late Prose, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.8.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.215f; μαχοῦμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 837, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1076, etc., μαχεῖται even in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.26, but μαχέονται 2.366; _Epic dialect_ μαχέσσομαι variant for{μαχήσομαι} 1.298 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐμαχεσάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.18, etc.; _optative_ μαχέσαιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.329 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive μαχέσασθαι [[ 17.178, also μαχέσσασθαι 15.633; _optative_ μαχεσσαίμεσθα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.74 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; participle μαχεσσαμένω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.304; later μαχήσασθαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.27.1, (ἀνα-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.93 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect μεμάχημαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: late aorist ἐμαχέσθην [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.970f, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.4.9: ] Refs 1st c.AD+]future μαχεσθήσομαι only [[ Scholia recentia 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 672 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—fight, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.; ὑσμῖνι μ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.863; πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μ. [prev. work] 452, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάχην μ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 5.5: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] mostly of armies and persons fighting as parts of armies, but sometimes of single combat, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.91, 433, 7.51, 111, 279, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.31, 39 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; between men and beasts, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.633, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.15; between beasts, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.824 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—Constr.: with dative person, fight with, i. e. against, one, ἀνδράσιν ἶφι μ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.151, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1253, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. ἀντία, ἐναντίον τινός, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.88, 97; ἐπί τινι 5.124, etc.; πρός τινα 17.471, but πρὸς δαίμονα] Refs 8th c.BC+] against heaven's will, [[[prev. work] 98 (in _Attic dialect_ Prose, mostly with _dative_ or πρός, μ. τοῖς πολεμίοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.47; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.116)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. σὺν σοί,.. θεά, with thy help, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.390 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μετὰ πρώτοισι μ. among the foremost, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.575 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μετὰ Βοιωτῶν μ. with them, in their ranks,[[ 13.700; πρός τινας μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.53, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 179a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ σφέας γὰρ μαχέονται will fight by themselves, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.366 (but κατ᾽ ἕνα μ.] Refs 8th c.BC+] fight in single combat, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. πρό τινος before him: hence, metaphorically, for him, in his defence, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.156, 8.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33, etc.; ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 44; πάτρας ὕπερ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1002; Ἕλλησιν ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 239b; περὶ δαιτί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.245 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but later usually περί τινος, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 740, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 163, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95; ἀμφί τινι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.70, 91; ἀμφὶ νέκυι 16.565; εἵνεκά τινος 2.377: with _dative_ instrum., τόξοισι, πελέκεσσι μ., 7.140, 15.711 (χερσὶ μαχέσσασθαι] Refs 8th c.BC+], of boxers, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.39)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μ. ἀπ᾽ ἵππου fight from horseback, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μήπω μεμαχημένον the force that had not yet come into action, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]