ἐπίμαχος

From ἐπιμαχίᾱ (epimakhíā, “defensive alliance”).

ἐπίμᾰχος • (epímakhos) m or f (neuter ἐπίμᾰχον); second declension

1. that may easily be attacked, assailable (of fortified places)
2. contended for, contested
3. equipped for battle
4. (substantive) ally, helper

• “ἐπίμαχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐπίμαχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐπίμαχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐπίμαχος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assailable idem, page 45.
  • attack idem, page 49.
  • exposed idem, page 295.
  • vulnerable idem, page 958.