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δια^μαρτ-άνω , fut.
A.“-αμαρτήσομαι” D.19.151:—strengthd. for ἁμαρτάνω, miss entirely, go quite astray from, “τῆς ὁδοῦ” Th.1.106; “τοῦ πράγματος” D.21.192, 51.2; “τοῦ ἑταίρου” Pl.Phdr.257d; τῆς ὀρθοτάτης “πολιτείας” Arist.Pol.1293b25.
2. fail utterly of, fail of obtaining, “τινός” Th.2.78; “τῶν ἐλπίδων” Isoc.4.93; “τοῦ ἀγῶνος” Is.6.52; “τῆς εἰρήνης” D.18.30; δυοῖν χρησίμοιν οὐ δ. not to miss both of two good things, Id.19.151.
3. abs., fail utterly, opp. τυγχάνω, Pl.Tht.178a; to be quite wrong, Macho 2.6; γνώμῃ in judgement, D.24.48,110; “δ. τοῖς ὅλοις” Arist.EN1098b28; ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ ib.1163a3; “περί τι” Id.Oec. 1345b10:—Pass., “τὰ πολλὰ . . διημαρτημένα” utter failures, Pl.Lg.639e; “διημαρτημένας δόξας” Diogenian.Epicur.2.32; διημαρτημένος faulty, of style, Phld.Rh.1.8S., Longin.33.1, Demetr.Eloc.114 (also in act. sense, “πολλαχῇ διημαρτημένου τοῦ Πλάτωνος” Longin.32.8, cf. Plu.2.44e). Adv. “διημαρτημένως” Poll.6.205.
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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