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διακρα^τ-έω ,
A.hold fast, control, “τὰ ὅπλα” Phylarch.24; “τὸν ὅλον κόσμον” Herm. ap. Stob.1.15.16, cf. Iamb.Myst.4.12; “ὀργάδα” D.H.1.79; hold, “ἐν τῷ στόματι” Dsc.2.152 (Pass.), cf. Gp.12.30.3 (Pass.), etc.
2. hold in possession, BGU1047 ii 6 (ii A.D., Pass.).
3. maintain, establish, “λόγον” Stob.1.1.9; retain, preserve, in argument, Dam.Pr.439.
4. hold up, support, “ἱστόν” Erot. s.v. ὅπλα; δέπας Ath.11.492b（Pass.): metaph., support, keep alive, “αὑτόν” D.L.9.43.
5. hold back, detain, in Pass., “πρὸς τῶν χρηστῶν” App.BC2.8.
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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