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μεταδίδωμι [δι^], fut. μεταδια-δώσω ,
A.give part of, give a share, c. gen. rei, τοῦ μεταδοῦν (poet. aor. 2 inf.) Thgn.104; “μ. τινί τινος” Id.925 (prob. l.), Hdt.1.143, Ar.Ach.961; γῆς (sc. αὐτοῖσι) Hdt.4.145; τῆς ἀρχῆς (sc. αὐτοῖσι) Id.7.150; “τῷ πλήθει τῆς πολιτείας” Arist.Pol.1306a25, cf. Pl.Men.89e, Isoc.13.10, etc.; “τοῖς μηδὲν ἀδικοῦσιν ἐξ ἴσου τῆς πολιτείας” Lys.25.3; “τὸ ἄλλῳ τῆς γεννητικῆς . . δυνάμεως μεταδεδωκός” Procl. Inst.56.
2. c. acc. of the part given, “μ. τὸ τριτημόριόν τινι” Hdt.9.34, cf. 8.5, Ar.V.917; “ἀρχῆς μηδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν μ. τοῖς ἡττηθεῖσιν” Pl.Lg.715a; “μ. τὸ μέρος” X.An.7.8.11; μ. πυρούς distribute, ib.4.5.5.
3. intr., μ. τινὶ ὑπέρ, περί τινος, communicate with one about . . , Plb.29.27.4, 38.8.1; ὅτι . . POxy.1153.6 (i A. D.):—Pass., to be communicated, transmitted, of notices, memoranda, etc., ib.1472.6 (ii A. D.), etc.; of diseases, Hp.Ep.19 (Hermes53.64, 65).
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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