διαστρατηγέω

A. assume the position of general, Plu. Phoc. 25, Aem. 13,al.
II. trans., to out-general, τοὺς Ῥωμαίους Plb. 21.39.9; τοὺς βαρβάρους Dion.Byz. 53.
2. δ. τι practise stratagems, Plb. 16.37.1.
3. δ. πόλεμον conduct a war to its close, Plu. Sull. 23; δ. τὰν ἀρχάν Polusap.Stob. 3.9.51.
4. at Rome, come to the end of one's praetorship, D.C. 54.33.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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