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διάβα^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.crossing over, passage, “δ. ποιεῖσθαι” Hdt.1.186, etc.; act of crossing, “αἱ δ. τῶν ὀχετῶν διασπῶσι τὰς φάλαγγας” Arist. Pol.1303b12.
2. means or place of crossing, Hdt.1.205; “δ. ποταμῶν” fords, Th.7.74, cf. X.An.1.5.12, etc.; bridge, ib.2.3.10; passage along a ship's deck, gangway, Hp.Ep.14, Plu.Cim.12; ferry-boat, LXX 2 Ki.19.18.
II. the Jewish Passover, Ph.1.117.
III. ἡ τῶν ὡρῶν δ. transition of the seasons, Ael.NA9.46.
IV. in Gramm., transitive force of Verbs, “τὰ ἐν δ. τοῦ προσώπου ῥήματα” A.D. Synt.202.7, al.
V. in Rhet. of intervals or pauses in pronunciation caused by long syllables and the like , “ῥυθμοὶ πλείστην ἔχοντες δ.” D.H.Comp.20; cf. “διαβαίνω” 1.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.186
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.205
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.74
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.5.12
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.3.10
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 19.18
    • Plutarch, Cimon, 12
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 1
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 20
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 9.46
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