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στρα^τόπεδ-ον , τό,
A.camp, encampment, Id.5.63, A. Th. 79 (lyr.), S.Ph.10, Gal.15.709; Στρατόπεδα, name of a part of Egypt, Hdt.2.154, cf. 112: hence, encamped army, Id.4.114, Gal.15.119, etc.; in both senses, Th.2.81.
2. at Rome, the Castra Praetoriana, D.C. 60.1, al.
II. generally, army, Hdt.1.77, 9.51,53; also, squadron of ships, Id.8.94, Th.1.117, Lys.21.6, IG12.105.29; “ς. ναυτικὰ καὶ πεζικά” X.HG6.3.18.
2. the Roman legion, Plb.1.16.2, BGU362 xi 15 (iii A.D.), D.C.55.23, etc.
III. the court or suite of the emperor or his representative, Jul.Ep.46.
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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