ἀξιόμαχοι (axiomachoi)

ἀξιόμαχοι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀξιόμαχος, meaning “a match in battle”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.57.2: … ῶν, ἀλλ’ αὐτοῖς κίνδυνος ἐφαίνετο ἐς τὸ τεῖχος κατακλῄεσθαι· ἀναχωρήσαντες δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ μετέωρα, ὡς οὐκ ἐνόμιζον ἀξιόμαχοι εἶναι, ἡσύχαζον.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 43.7.3: … Καῖσαρ εἴσω τῶν στενῶν χωρήσας ἐτάφρευε καὶ ἐσταύρου. καὶ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα αὐτῷ παρεῖχον (οὐ γὰρ ἦσαν ἀξιόμαχοἰ, ὁ δὲ δὴ Σκιπίων καὶ ὁ Ἰόβας ἐπεχείρησαν τὸ στόμα τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ, καθʼ ὃ πρὸς τὴν ἤπειρον τελευτᾷ, σταυρώμασι καὶ …

All forms of ἀξιόμαχος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.