2. succession, ἄλλος παρ᾽ ἄλλου διαδοχαῖς πληρούμενοι by successions or reliefs, A.Ag.313; “διαδοχῇ τῶν ἐπιγιγνομένων” Th.2.36; “ἡ τῶν τέκνων δ.” Arist.Pol.1334b39: freq. in dat. pl., “ἀνάσσειν διαδοχαῖσιν ἐν μέρει ἐνιαυσίαισιν” E.Supp.406; διαδοχαῖς Ἐρινύων (apparently) by successive attacks of the Furies, Id.IT79; γένους μακραῖς δ. by long pedigrees, Hdn.1.2.2: with Preps., ἐκ διαδοχῆς ἀλλήλοις in turns, D.4.21, cf. Antiph.8 (but, in succession, Arist.Ph. 228a28); κατὰ διαδοχὴν χρόνου or κατὰ δ., Th.7.27,28; “κατὰ διαδοχάς” Arist.Mu.398a33; “τὰ κατὰ διαδοχὴν κληρονομηθέντα” POxy.1201.7 (iii A. D.), cf. BGU907.13 (iii A. D.).
II. concrete in military sense, relief, relay, “ἡ δ. τῇ πρόσθεν φυλακῇ ἔρχεται” X.Cyr.1.4.17, cf. D.21.164: metaph., “σελήνη ἡλίου δ.” Secund.Sent.6.
2. the succession (i.e. successors), Luc.Nigr.38; ἡ περὶ τὸν Πλάτωνα δ. the school of Plato, S.E.M.7.190; “Στωϊκή δ.” Plu.2.605b; “ἡ Ἐπικούρου δ.” IG22.1009 (Epist. Plotinae); αἱ Διαδοχαί, title of work by Sotion on the Successions or successive heads of the Philosophic Schools, Ath.4.162e, cf. D.L.Prooem.1, 2.12.
