A.receive one from another, δ. τὸν λόγον take up the word, i.e. speak next, Pl.R.576b; “λόγον παρά τινος” D.H. Rh.8.14: abs., “διαδεξάμενοι ἔλεγον” Hdt.8.142; “ἀποκρινόμενοι διαδέχεσθε” Pl.Lg.900c; δ. νόμους παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, τέχνην, Antipho 1.3, Lys.24.6; τὴν διατριβήν, leadership of a school of philosophy, Phld. Acad.Ind.p.58 M.
2. δ. βασιλείαν succeed to the kingdom, Plb.2.4.7; “ἀρχὴν παρά τινος” Id.9.28.8; τὴν ναῦν δ. τινί, of a trierarch (cf. “διαδοχή” 1), D.50.38; “πλοῦτον παρά τινος” Luc.DMort.11.3.
II. διαδέχεσθαί τινι succeed one, take his place, relieve him on guard, etc., Pl. Lg.758b, X.Cyr.8.6.18: later, “δ. τινά” Arist.Pol.1299b4, Plb.28.3.6; δ. τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν act for the στρατηγός, BGU18.3 (ii A. D.), etc.; “τοὺς προφήτας στολισταὶ δ.” represent, PGnom.193.
b. appoint a successor to, “τινά” Eun.Hist.p.231 D.:—Pass., διεδέχθη τῆς στρατηγίας was relieved of his command, Id.p.243 D.
2. abs., relieve one another, τοῖς ἵπποις with fresh horses, X.An.1.5.2 (wrongly expld. as closing in from both sides by Demetr.Eloc.93); succeed, “οἱ διαδεχόμενοι στρατηγοί” Lys.13.62, cf. Arist.Pol.1293a29; οἱ διαδεξάμενοι the successors (of Alexander), Plb.9.34.11; “οἱ τὰ Πύρρου δ.” App.Ill.7: pf. part. Pass., “νὺξ εἰσάγει καὶ νὺξ ἀπωθεῖ διαδεδεγμένη” in turns, by turns, S.Tr.30; “διαδεξάμενοι” Act.Ap.7.45; “οἱ διαδεχόμενοι καιροί” Herod.Med. ap. Orib.7.8.3.
