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διακλέπτω ,
A.steal at different times, “ὅσα δὲ διακέκλεπται” D.27.12; τὸ δὲ διακλαπὲν πολύ the number stolen [by the soldiers] and dispersed was great, Th.7.85, cf. Plu.Nic.27:—Med., steal away, LXX 2 Ki.19.3(4).
II. keep alive or save by stealth, “τινά” Hdt.1.38; “ἑαυτήν” Plu. Sull.22.
III. evade, “τῇ ἀπολογίᾳ δ. τὴν κατηγορίαν” Lys.26.3; “δ. τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ λόγοις τὴν ἀλήθειαν” D.29.5; disguise, “τῇ χάριτι τῆς συνθέσεως τὴν ἀνάγκην” D.H.Comp.18; pass in evasion of duty, “τὸν λοιπὸν χρόνον τῆς ὑπατείας” Id.10.54.
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 (9):
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 12
    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus, 5
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.38
    • Lysias, On the Scrutiny of Evandros, 3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.85
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 22
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 27
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 10.54
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 18
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