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διαίρω , aor.
A.“διῆρα” D.H.1.35:—raise up, lift up, “δ. ἄνω τὸν αὐχένα” X.Eq.10.3: metaph., exaggerate, “τὰ πράγματα” Ph.2.575:—Med., rise, become prominent, of the breasts, Hp.Gland.16; lift up oneself, “πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὅλων θέαν” Arist.Mu.391a3: c. acc., lift up what is one's own, “δ. τὴν βακτηρίαν” Plu.Lys.15; “τοὺς ἄκοντας” Luc.Tox.40; τόσον δ. take so much on oneself, dub. l. in Pl.Ax.370b:—Pass., δ. πρός, εἰς ὕψος, Ph.2.510, 619: metaph., “πρὸς ἀλαζονείαν” Plu.2. 116e.
II. separate, remove, “τὸν πόλεμον ἀπό . .” Plu.Ages.15:— Med., διαράμενος (sc. τοὺς πόδας) with long strides, Thphr.Char.3.6.
2. δ. τὸ στόμα open one's mouth, D.19.112,207: hence Rhet., “διηρμένος” lofty, sublime, D.H.Rh.6.6, Vett.Cens.5.3, Longin.2.2, Hermog. Id.2.9; λέξις ib.1.1; “ποιητική” Luc.Hist.Conscr.45.
III. intr. (sc. ἑαυτόν, etc.), lift oneself over, cross, τὸ πέλαγος, of swans, Arist.Fr.344; “τὸν πόρον” Plb.1.37.1; εἰς Σαρδόνα ib.24.5, etc.; “τὴν ἀκτήν” D.H. l.c.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 112
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 10.3
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 3.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.37.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 24.5
    • Plutarch, Lysander, 15
    • Plutarch, Agesilaus, 15
    • Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, 40
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 45
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.35
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 5.3
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