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διαγρα?́φ-ω ,
A.mark out by lines, delineate, “τὴν πόλιν” Pl.R.500e; “δ. λόγῳ” map out, Id.Lg.778a; δ. τινά describe a person, Philostr.VS2.2.7, Her.2.1: abs., Plu.Nic.23, etc.
b. δ. γραμμήν draw a line between, Pl.Com.153.2.
2. draft a law, etc., D.H.6.88:—Pass., “συνθηκῶν διαγραφεισῶν” Plb.1.62.7.
II. draw out a list of, “προτάσεις” Arist.APr.46a8 (Pass.), Rh.1378a28, cf. PRev.Laws13.2.
III. enroll, levy, “στρατιώτας” Plb.6.12.6.
b. of things, fix by written ordinance, “τὸ πλῆθος τὸ διαγραφὲν ἀποτινέτω” PRev.Laws43.7 (iii B. C.).
IV. draw a line through, cross out, erase, Pl.R.387b; δ. τινά strike off a person's name, E.El.1073; δ. δίκην, of the magistrates, strike a cause out of the list, Ar.Nu.774 (Pass.), cf. Lys.17.5 codd., D.48.26 (but in SIG2.511.28,47 (Pass.), prob. to be entered in the list):—Med., διαγράψασθαι δίκην, of the plaintiff, give up a cause, withdraw it, Lys.Fr.195 S., D.20.145.
2. cancel, rescind, “δόγμα” Plu.Mar.4; rule out, exclude, “τὰ ἄλογα τῶν ζῴων” Porph.Abst.3.1.
3. reduce, degrade, “θεοὺς εἰς ὀνόματα στρατηγῶν” Plu.2.360a, cf. 377d, 757b.
V. write an order for, “ὀψωνισμοὺς τοῖς στρατιώταις” D.H.5.28, cf. SIG410.16 (Pass.); pay by banker's draft, UPZ114, IG11(2).287 A135 (Delos, iii B. C.), etc.; simply, pay, “στατῆρας ἑκατόν” Milet.3.147.12, cf. SIG577.9, PRev.Laws32.11 (iii B. C.), PTeb.100.3 (ii B. C.), LXX 2 Ma.4.9.
VI. distribute, “χώρας” Plu.Pomp.31; “σατραπείας” D.S.18.50.
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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