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διά-λυ^σις , εως, ἡ, (διαλύω)
A.separating, parting, “δ. τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ σώματος” Pl.Grg.524b; δ. τοῦ σώματος its dissolution, Id.Phd.88b, cf. Democr.297; τὴν τῶν γεφυρῶν οὐ δ. the failure to break the bridges, Th.1.137; disbanding of troops, X.Cyr.6.1.3; breaking up of an assembly, opp. συλλογή, Pl.Lg.758d; δ. ἀγορῆς the time of its breaking up, Hdt.3.104; τὴν δ. ἐποιήσαντο broke off the action, Th.1.51; χρεῶν δ. liquidation of debts, Pl.Lg.684d, cf. POxy.104.20 (i A. D.), etc.; “δ. γάμου” divorce, Plu.Sull.35, etc.; “ἡ φθορὰ δ. οὐσίας” Arist.Top.153b31: hence abs., dissolution, opp. σύνθεσις, Id.Cael.304b29, cf. Thphr. Ign.37; “διάκρισις καὶ δ.” Pl.Phlb.32a; opp. γένεσις, Phld.D.3.6; resolution into elements, e.g. of words into letters, D.H.Comp.14; dissolution of friendship, Arist.EN1164a9, 1 165b36; of partnerships, “κοινωνίαι καὶ -σεις” Pl.Lg.632b; “συμμαχία καὶ δ.” Arist.Pol.1298a5.
2. ending, cessation, “κακῶν” E.Ph.435; “πολέμου” Th.4.19, v.l. in Isoc.6.51: abs., cessation of hostilities, Com.Adesp.21.23 D.; settlement, compromise, IG12(2).6.20 (Mytilene, iv B.C.), PAmh.2.63.9 (iii A.D.), etc.: in pl., settlement of a dispute, “ἠξίου δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἔμ᾽ αὑτῷ . . γίγνεσθαι τὰς διαλύσεις” D.21.119, cf. Phoenicid.1.
3. solution of a problem, A.D.Synt.243.11; “χρησμῶν” Luc.Alex.49.
4. refutation of an argument, S.E.P.2.238.
5. resolution of a diphthong: ἐν διαλύσει, = διαλελυμένως, A.D.Pron.29.13.
6. Rhet., asyndeton, Alex.Fig.2.12, etc.
7. discharge, “χορηγιῶν” PRyl. 181.10 (iii A.D.); “τῶν χρεωστουμένων” POxy.71.13 (iv A.D.).
8. deed of separation or divorce, PLips.39.10 (iv A.D.); “ἔγγραφος δ.” PMasp.153.16 (vi A.D.).
9. division of inheritance, Sammelb. 6000.22 (vi A.D.), etc.
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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