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διά-κενος , ον,
A.empty, hollow, “σφαῖρα” Sor. 1.93; “τὸ δ.” gap, breach, Th.4.135,5.71; “τὸ δ. τοῦ ὀδόντος” Antyll. ap. Orib.10.36.3; interval, Aristox.Harm.p.26 M.; “τὰ δ.” hollows, Pl.Ti. 58b, 60e; διάκενον δεδορκότα with a vacant stare, of skeletons, Luc. Nec.15.
II. empty or vain, Pl.Lg.820e; δ. ἑλκυσμός, of idle fancies, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.22. Adv. “-νως, ἕλκειν τὴν διάνοιαν” Iamb. Myst.2.10; “κοπιᾶν” Macar.1.99.
III. thin, lank, Plu.Lyc.17; “δ. καὶ λαγαροί” Id.Publ.15; “δ. τοὺς βουβῶνας” Philostr.Gym.37.
IV. porous, Gal.8.672; δ. ἄρτοι light bread, LXXNu.21.5.
V. Adv. διακένως, ζώνη δ. ὑφασμένη of a gauzy texture, J.AJ3.7.2.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.7.2
    • Plato, Laws, 820e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 58b
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.135
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    • Old Testament, Numbers, 21.5
    • Plutarch, Publicola, 15
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 17
    • Lucian, Necyomantia, 15
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Gymnastica, 37
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