insertion; ramming; attack
Ancient Greek word, found 178 times in the texts on Socratos.
Herodotus, Histories 1.191.2: τάξας τὴν στρατιὴν ἅπασαν ἐξ ἐμβολῆς τοῦ ποταμοῦ, τῇ ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἐσβάλλει, καὶ ὄπισθε αὖτις τῆς πόλιος τάξας ἑτέρους, τῇ ἐξιεῖ ἐκ τῆς πόλιος ὁ πο …
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.76.4: … σαν τὴν δοκὸν χαλαραῖς ταῖς ἁλύσεσι καὶ οὐ διὰ χειρὸς ἔχοντες, ἡ δὲ ῥύμῃ ἐμπίπτουσα ἀπεκαύλιζε τὸ προῦχον τῆς ἐμβολῆς.
Euripides, Andromache 1130: προὔτεινε τεύχη κἀφυλάσσετ’ ἐμβολὰς
All forms of ἐμβολή