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διαγίγνομαι , Ion.and later Att. δια-γίνομαι [γι_], fut. -γενήσομαι: aor. διεγενόμην, also
A.“διεγενήθην” Phld.Piet.37:—go through, pass, “τοσάδε ἔτη” Pl.Ap.32e; “τὴν νύκτα” X.An.1.10.19; “δ. ἀπραγμόνως τὴν ἡμέραν” Nicom.Com.1.42: abs., go through life, live, Ar.Av.45, Th.5.16; survive, v. l. in Hp.Epid.1.2; ἐὰν ἄρα διαγιγνώμεθα if we live long enough, Aeschin.1.51; “ἂν διαγένωμαι” Diog.Oen.66; δ. ἀπὸ τῆς τέχνης to subsist by it, Arist.Pol.1268a31; γενναίως δ. ἔν τινι behave nobly in . ., Plu.2.119d: freq. c. part., διαγενέσθαι ἄρχων continue in the government, X.Cyr.1.1.1; οὐδὲν ἄλλο ποιῶν διαγεγένηται ἢ διασκοπῶν he was never anything but a theorist, Id.Mem.4.8.4; “δ. κολακεύων” D.23.179.
II. intervene, elapse, “χρόνου μεταξὺ διαγενομένου” Lys.1.15; “χρόνων διαγενομένων” Is.11.9, cf. Plu.Rom.22, etc.; οἴδαμεν . . ἤδη τῇ κρίσει ἐκείνῃ διαγεγονότα ἔτη ὀκτώ Test. ap. D.21.82, cf. Plu.2.162c, Phld.Piet.37, POxy.68.18 (ii A. 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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 51
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 45
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 179
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 82
    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 15
    • Plato, Apology, 32e
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.10.19
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.1.1
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.8.4
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 1.2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.16
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 22
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