συμμᾰχ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, alliance, offensive and defensive (opposed to an ἐπιμαχία or defensive one, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.44), “IG” 12.52.16, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.181, 4.120, etc.; σ. ποιέεσθαι πρός τινα [prev. author] 5.73, compare 63, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.21, “IG” 22.43.26, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.44, 57 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἔξω ξ. [[ [prev. author] 3.65; σ. παρέχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 474b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 generally, the duty of an ally, ξυμμαχίας ἁμαρτών [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 213 (Lyric poetry) (which others take in signification 11). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 συμμαχίαν φρουρεῖν, i.e. συμμάχων χώραν, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.33. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II ={τὸ συμμαχικόν}, the body of allies, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.77, 82, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 994 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.118, 119, etc.; συμμαχίας συνελθούσης 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.32. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 allied or auxiliary force, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.73; σ. πέμπειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.24, compare “SIG” 763.5 (Cyzicus, 1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔξωθεν ἐπάγεσθαι σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 556e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, body of friends, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).72. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]