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λοχάω

lochao

lie in wait for, waylay

Appears 11 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

λοχάω, Ep.aor. subj. Med. -ήσομαι Od. 4.670:—A. lie in wait for, waylay, Τηλέμαχον λοχόωντες 16.369, cf. 4.847; ἦ μέν μιν λοχόωσι 13.425; τὸν δὲ . . οἴκαδʼ ἰόντα λοχῶσιν 14.181; αὐτὸν ἰόντα λοχήσομαι 4.670; ἐλόχησαν τὰς γυναῖκας Hdt. 6.138; σε . . λοχῶσιν . . Ἐρινύες S. Ant. 1075. 2. abs., lie in wait, ambush, ὅθι σφίσιν εἶκε λοχῆσαι Il. 18.520; λοχᾷ ἐπὶ δένδρεον ἀναβάς Hdt. 4.22; πρὸς δόμοις λοχᾷς ἐμοῖς E. El. 225; πρὸς τοῖσι βωμοῖς Pherecr. 141: but mostly in aor. part. with another Verb, ὄφρα . . σὸν παῖδα κατακτείνειε λοχήσας Od. 22.53; λοχήσαντες τὴν νέα εἷλον Hdt. 6.87, cf. 37; λοχήσας . . πολλοὺς διέφθειρεν Th. 1.65, cf. 3.94:—Med., λοχησάμενος Od. 4.388, 463; ἐγγὺς ὁδοῖο λοχησάμενος 13.268; later also λοχώμενος, λελοχημένος, in ambush, A.R. 1.991, 3.7. 3. c. acc. loci, occupy with an ambuscade, ἐλόχησαν τὴν ἐν Πηδάσῳ ὁδόν Hdt. 5.121. 4. metaph., οἷον λοχῶντες τὴν πρὸς Ῥωμαίους φιλίαν laying a trap of friendship for them, Plb. 3.40.6.—Rare in good Att. (v. Th. ll. cc.), but freq. in late Prose, as Plb. l. c., D.H. 2.55, al., Plu. Ant. 46:—Pass., Epicur. Nat. 15.22, J. BJ 3.6.2:—Med. only in Ep.
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