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διά-στα^σις , εως, ἡ, (διΐστημι)
A.parting, separation (opp. ἕνωσις, Dam.Pr.273), “ὀρέων” Hdt.7.129; “ὀστέων” Hp.Art.20, cf. Gal.19.461; “φάραγγες καὶ δ. τῆς γῆς” fissures, Arist.Mete.350b36; breach in a barrier, Ph.Bel.98.31; opening, “τῆς γένυος” Aret.CD1.3.
b. κεφαλῆς δ. splitting headache, ibid. (pl.), v.l. in Pl.R.407c.
c. distension, Arist.PA681b24; “φλεβῶν” Aret.SA2.2.
d. δ. κενεή retching, ib. 2.7.
e. = διαστολή, of the pulse, Zenoap.Gal.8.736.
f. expansion of air, opp. πίλησις, Ph.Bel.77.23.
2. setting at variance, “τοῖς νέοις ἐς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους” Th.6.18, cf. Plu.Cor.16; cause of breach, Arist.Pol.1303b15.
b. contrasting, Pl.R.360e.
3. difference, contrast, Arist.Cael.312a13.
4. disagreement, “δ. ἢ στάσις” Pl. Lg.744d, cf. Arist.Pol.1296a8, 1300b37.
5. divorce, Plu.Aem.5, etc.
II. Gramm., of vowels, διαίρεσις κατὰ διάστασιν (as in πάϊς) A.D.Pron.87.4.
b. τὰ κατὰ δ. forms written as two words, e.g. ἐμέθεν αὐτῆς ib.114.11.
III. interval, Pl.Ti.36a, etc.; in Music, Aristox.Harm.p.4 M., al.; of space, extension, Arist.Top.142b5, al.; dimension, “τὰς αὐτὰς διαστάσεις εἰς βάθος εἰληφός” Epicur.Nat.2.7, cf. Gal.11.503, S.E.M.3.19; “ἡ δ. ἡ τριχῇ” tridimensionality, Plot.1.2.6, cf. 6.6.17, Porph.Sent.35, Dam.Pr.375.
IV. = διακόσμησις, Antipho Soph.23. (Freq. confused with διάτασις, wh. shd. perh. be read in 1.1.b,c,d.)
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 (12):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.129
    • Plato, Laws, 744d
    • Plato, Republic, 360e
    • Plato, Republic, 407c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 36a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.18
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 20
    • Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo, 1.3
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.7
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 5
    • Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, 16
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