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πόλεμος (pólemos, war) +‎ -έω (-éō, verbal suffix)

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πολεμέω (poleméō) (Attic, Ionic, Koine)

  1. to make war, be at war, fight, quarrel [+dative = with, against someone], [+ πρός (accusative) = with, against someone]
    • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1:
      Θουκυδίδης Ἀθηναῖος ξυνέγραψε τὸν πόλεμον τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ Ἀθηναίων, ὡς ἐπολέμησαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους
      Thoukudídēs Athēnaîos xunégrapse tòn pólemon tôn Peloponnēsíōn kaì Athēnaíōn, hōs epolémēsan pròs allḗlous
      Thucydides the Athenian wrote down [the history of] the war of the Pelopponesians and Athenians, how they fought against each other
  2. (transitive, with a person as object) to make war on
    1. (passive voice, of a person) to have war made on one
  3. (with cognate accusative) to fight a fight
    1. (passive voice, of a fight) to take place

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