μάχῐμ-ος [ᾰ], η, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.185 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (μάχη):— fit for battle, warlike, ἐπειδὴ μ. εἶ since you're a fighting man, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1368; αἱ μάχιμοι μυριάδες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] [same place]; τὸ μ. the effective force, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.46; τὸ τῆς πόλεως μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 830c (but ἀνέωνται ἐς τὸ μ. ={ἐς πόλεμον} 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.165); μ. γένη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240a; τὸ μ. γένος [prev. author] “Ti.” 24a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1268a36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μ. (i.e. ἔθνος) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially in Egypt, οἱ μ. τῶν Αἰγυπτίων the warrior caste, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.141, compare 164 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so later, of native troops, frequently in Papyrus, [[ “PTeb.” 61 (a). 109 (2nd c.BC), etc.: _comparative_ -ώτερος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.22.6 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 153, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110; τὰ μ. τῶν ἔργων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -μως [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.9.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 = {μαχιμώδης}, [[ “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” ] Refs]
__II disputable, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.45. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]