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προλοχ-ίζω ,
A.lay an ambuscade beforehand, J.BJ1.4.4, 4.9.8 (s.v.l.): c. acc. cogn., “π. τινὰς ἐνέδρας” Hld.6.13:—Pass., αἱ προλελοχισμέναι ἐνέδραι the ambush that had before been laid, Th.3.112; but also “προλοχίζοιντο αἱ νύκτες ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων” J.BJ1.13.4 (dub. l.).
2. place men in ambuscade, Id.AJ5.2.11, BJ1.2.2.
II. beset with an ambuscade, πέμπει . . τοῦ στρατοῦ μέρος τι τὰς ὁδοὺς προλοχιοῦντας Th.3.110, cf. Plu.Sert.13; also “π. τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐνέδραις” Th.2.81.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 5.2.11
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 1.13.4
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.110
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.81
    • Plutarch, Sertorius, 13
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