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δια^μαρτ-ία , ἡ,
A.total mistake, “τοῦ Ἀννίβου” Plu.Fab.6; τοῦ τόπου ibid.; δ. τῶν ἡμερῶν wrong reckoning of the days, Th.4.89; δ. τῆς γλώττης, lapsus linguae, Luc.Laps.1.
2. gross fault, “ἄγνοιαι καὶ δ.” Ph.1.345, cf. Plu.2.153b; “δ. ἐρωτική” guilty passion, Philostr. VA1.13: pl., faults, “δ. καὶ . . ἐλαττώσεις” Phld.Lib.p.19O.
II. failure in obtaining, disappointment in, “τινός” Luc.Sacr.1, cf. D.C. 49.28.
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 (6):
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.89
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 6
    • Lucian, De sacrificiis, 1
    • Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum, 1
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 49.28
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.13
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