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διαμετρ-έω ,
A.measure through, measure out or off, χῶρον δ. measure lists for combat, Il.3.315; survey, “χώραν” OGI502.12 (Aezani): abs., “μετρῶν καὶ δ. καὶ λογιζόμενος” D.Chr.40.7:—Med., Plb.6.41.3, Max. Tyr.6.3:—Pass., “ἡμέρα διαμεμετρημένη” measured by the clepsydra, D.19.120, Arist.Ath.67.3.
2. measure out in portions, distribute, “μεδίμνους δ. τισὶ τῆς καθεστηκυίας τιμῆς” D.34.39; οὐδὲν δ. τοῖς στρατιώταις give out no rations, X.An.7.1.40, cf. 41, etc.:—Med., divide amongst themselves, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.66, X.Cyr.7.5.9; receive as one's share, D.34.37:—Med. in act. sense, Call.Ap.55, Dian. 36.
3. Med., “δ. τὸν βίον” die, Procop.Aed.3.1.
4. measure with the eye, scan, Nonn.D.5.306, al.
5. pass over, traverse, Ὑδάσπην ib.23.149, cf. 22.42.
II. Astron., “δ. φάεσιν φάος ἀντικέλευθον” to be in opposition, Man.4.74, cf. 296, Gal.19.557: c. acc., to be diametrically opposite to, “τὸν ἥλιον” Cleom.1.11: abs., ibid., Simp.inCael.480.6; “ὁκόταν ὁ χειμὼν διαμετρέῃ τῷ κατὰ λόγον” Hp. Ep.19 (Hermes 53.70).
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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    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 67.3
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