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διαφορ-έω ,
A.= διαφέρω, spread abroad, disperse, “κλέος εὐρὺ διὰ ξεῖνοι φορέουσι” Od.19.333; “σωρὸν . . διαφορῆσαι ῥᾴδιον” Diph.100; “τὴν ὑγρότητα” Plu.2.366c, etc.; πολλὰ τῆς οὐσίας ib.484a; δ. κραιπάλῃ τὴν κραιπάλην ib.127f:—Pass., “διαπεφορῆσθαι” Critias Fr.62 D.; “τὰ διαπεφορημένα τῶν εἰδώλων” Arist.Div.Somn.464b13.
2. carry away, “τοὺς σταυρούς” Th.6.100; esp. as plunder, “χρήματα τὰ σὰ διαφορέει” Hdt.1.88; ὧν κοινῇ διαπεφορημένων d.27.29.
3. plunder, “ἐπαρχίας” Plu.Brut.6, etc.:—Med., PSI5.522.5 (iii B.C.):—most freq. in Pass., “οἶκον διαφορηθέντα” Hdt.3.53; “διαφορουμένης τῆς χώρας ὑπὸ λῃστῶν” D.19.315; διαφορεῖσθαι τὴν γνώμην to be robbed of one's wits, Pl. Lg.672b.
4. tear in pieces, “ἄλλαι δὲ δαμάλας διεφόρουν” E.Ba.730; “τινὰς τοξεύμασι” Id.HF571; “ὑπὸ κυνῶν τε καὶ ὀρνίθων διαφορεύμενος” Hdt. 7.10.θ᾽, cf. Ar.Av.338.
5. Pass., of ice, break up, Gp.19.6.4.
II. = διαφέρω 1.1, carry across from one place to another, “ἀπὸ τῶν ξυμμάχων προσόδου διαφορουμένης” Th.6.91.
III. Medic. (cf. διαφόρησις, -ητικός):
1. dissipate by evaporation, perspiration, etc., in Pass., Aret.SD2.1, Alex.Aphr.Pr.1.68, Gal.10.657, al.
2. 'discuss', disperse by drugs or treatment, “φύματα” Dsc.5.156, cf. Gal.10.392: abs., Dsc.1.30.
3. exhaust by dissipating, weaken, “καρδιακόν με διαφορεῖ πάθος” Diog. Oen.66: metaph., “ὁ μερισμὸς δ. καὶ ἐκλύει τὴν ἑκάστου δύναμιν” Procl.Inst.86:—Pass., Gal.14.735.
IV. Pass., dispute, debate, S.E.M.1.205.
V. διαφορούμενον ἀξίωμα, v. διφορέω.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 338
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 315
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.88
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.53
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.10
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.333
    • Plato, Laws, 672b
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    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.1
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.100
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