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δια^γωγ-ή , ἡ,
A.carrying across, “τριήρων” Polyaen.5.2.6.
2. lit. carrying through: hence metaph., ἡ διὰ πάντων αὐτῶν δ. taking a person through a subject by instruction, Pl.Ep.343e; so, course of instruction, lectures, ἐν τῇ ἐνεστώσῃ δ. prob. in Phld.Piet.25.
II. passing of life, way or course of life, “δ. βίου” Pl.R.344e: abs., Id.Tht.177a, etc.
2. way of passing time, amusement, “δ. μετὰ παιδιᾶς” Arist.EN1127b34, cf. 1177a27; “δ. ἐλευθέριος” Id.Pol.1339b5; διαγωγαὶ τοῦ συζῆν public pastimes, ib.1280b37, cf. Plu.126b (pl.).
3. delay, D.C. 57.3.
III. management, τῶν πραγμάτων δ. dispatch of business, Id.48.5.
IV. station for ships, f. l. in Hdn.4.2.8.
V. διαγωγάν: διαίρεσιν, διανομήν, διέλευσιν, Hsch.
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 (4):
    • Plato, Republic, 344e
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 177a
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 48.5
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 57.3
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