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διάδοχ-ος , ον,
A.succeeding a person in a thing:
1. c. dat. pers. et gen. rei, δ. Μεγαβάζῳ τῆς στρατηγίης his successor in the command, Hdt.5.26, cf. 1.162, etc.; θνητοῖς . . διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων succeeding them in, i.e. relieving them from, toils, A.Pr.464, cf. 1027; “σοι τῶνδε διάδοχος δόμων” E.Alc.655.
2. c. gen. rei only, δ. τῆς Ἀστυόχου ναυαρχίας succeeding to his command, Th.8.85; “δ. τῆς κληρονομίας” Isoc.19.43; “τῆς φιλοσοφίας” Epicur.Fr.217.
3. c. gen. pers. only, φέγγος ὕπνου δ. sleep's successor light, S.Ph. 867.
4. c. dat. pers. only, “δ. Κλεάνδρῳ” X.An.7.2.5: c. dat. rei, “ἔργοισι δ᾽ ἔργα διάδοχα” E.Andr.743; κακὸν κακῷ δ. ib.803; quasiact., λύπη . . δ. κακῶν κακοῖς bringing a succession of evils after evils, Hec.588; ἀγὼν . . γόων γόοις （γόων bis codd.) “δ.” Supp.72 (lyr.).
5. abs., διάδοχοι ἐφοίτων they went to work in relays or gangs, Hdt.7.22, cf. Th.1.110: neut. pl. as Adv., in turn, E.Andr.1200(lyr.).
6. as Subst., οἱ Δ. the Successors of Alexander, D.S.18.42.
b. the lowest grade of court officials at Alexandria, OGI100.4, PAmh.2.36.5, PRyl.67.2 (both ii B. C.).
c. substitute, deputy, BGU852.4 (ii A. D.), POxy.54.7 (iii A. D.).
d. head of a school of philosophers, “τῆς σχολῆς” Phld.Ind.Sto.53; “δ. Στωικός” IG3.661, cf. 22.1009 (Epist. Plotinae).
e. a kind of gem, Plin.HN37.157.
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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