συμμαχία

symmachia

alliance, offensive and defensive

Appears 7 times across Plato's dialogues.

Frequency by work

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Republic 6
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Book V 1
Chapter ?

474b3
Book VIII 5
Chapter ?

556e7
559e5
559e10
560c9
555a4
Letters 1
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Chapter ?

322d2

Dictionary (LSJ)

συμμαχία, Ion. -ιη, ἡ, A. alliance, offensive and defensive (opp. an ἐπιμαχία or defensive one, Th. 1.44), IG 12.52.16, al., Hdt. 2.181, 4.120, etc.; σ. ποιέεσθαι πρός τινα Id. 5.73, cf. 63, X. HG 3.2.21, IG 22.43.26, etc.; τινι Th. 1.44,57; ἡ ἔξω ξ. Id. 3.65; σ. παρέχεσθαι Pl. R. 474b. 2. generally, the duty of an ally, ξυμμαχίας ἁμαρτών A. Ag. 213 (lyr.) (which others take in signf. II). 3. συμμαχίαν φρουρεῖν, i.e. συμμάχων χώραν, Th. 5.33. II. = τὸ συμμαχικόν, the body of allies, Hdt. 1.77,82, E. Rh. 994 (anap.), Th. 1.118,119, etc.; συμμαχίας συνελθούσης Aeschin. 2.32. 2. allied or auxiliary force, Th. 6.73; σ. πέμπειν X. HG 4.8.24, cf. SIG 763.5 (Cyzicus, i B.C.); ἔξωθεν ἐπάγεσθαι σ. Pl. R. 556e: generally, body of friends, Pi. O. 10(11).72.

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