πολέμ-ιος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1192, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 344 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— of or belonging to war, κάματοι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅπλα Expl.Arch. de Délos [[ 11.140 ] Refs]; τὰ π. war and its business, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.78, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.80 (assuming variant), etc.; παρασκευάζεσθαι τὰ π. [prev. author] 1.18. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II more frequently of or like an enemy, hostile, ἄνδρες [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.80; χείρ [prev. author] “N.” 4.55; χθών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 588; δόρυ [prev. work] 216, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνδρα π. ἐχθρόν τε [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1302; π. δυσμενῆ τε [prev. work] 1323 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινί hostile to one, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1138; π. πῦρ νεύροις 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b frequently as substantive, enemy, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.87, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.15, etc.; οἱ π. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]the enemy, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84, 2.43, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.c τὸ φύσει π. natural hostility, [[ [prev. author] 4.60 ] Refs]; τὸ π. τῶν Ἀθηναίων towards them, [[ [prev. author] 5.11. ] Refs]
__II.2 generally, opposed, adverse, δύο.. ἐόντα -ώτατα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δύο.. ἔτι πολεμιώτερα (i.e. γῆ καὶ θάλασσα)[[ [prev. work] 49; τὸ ἔλαιον ταῖς θριξὶ -ώτατον ταῖς τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων ] Refs]most hurtful, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 334b; πολεμία ἡ ὀσμὴ τοῖς ὄφεσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 612a29. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]