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διαπίπτω ,
A.fall through, Arist.Cael.313b1.
II. fall away, slip away, escape, “ἐν τῇ μάχῃ” X.HG3.2.4; πρός τινα ib.4.3.18; “εἰς τὴν Ἀσπίδα” Plb.1.34.11, etc.
2. of reports and rumours, spread abroad, “εἰς τὰ στρατεύματα” Plu.Galb.22.
3. of Time, elapse, Arist.Ath.35.4.
III. fall asunder, crumble in pieces, “διαπέσοιμι πανταχῇ” Ar. Eq.695, cf. Pl.Phd.80c, Arist.Mete.365b12; burst, of bubbles, Id.Pr. 936b5; rot, LXX Nu.5.21; perish, διέπεσε πᾶσα γενεὰ ἀνδρῶν ib.De. 2.14; to be missing, lost, of moneys, etc., PEleph.21.19 (iii B.C.), etc.; of books, to be imperfect, J.AJ12.2.4.
b. of an intermittent pulse, Gal.19.636.
2. of things, turn out ill, be useless, “τὸ συκοφάντημα διέπιπτεν αὐτῷ” Aeschin.2.39, cf.Plb.5.26.16, PAmh.2.33.26 (ii B.C.), etc.
3. of persons, make mistakes, “ἐν τοῖς σημαινομένοις” Chrysipp.Stoic.3.33, cf. Phld.Ir.p.73 W.: c. gen., fail of, miss, Epicur. Ep.2p.43U., Phld.Rh.1.49S.; “δ. περὶ τῆς δόξης” Socr.Ep.22; “περὶ τῶν μεγίστων” Arr.Epict.2.22.36: abs., err, Phld.Ir.p.91W.; “οὐ διαπεσούμεθα” Iamb. in Nic.p.63P.; to be cheated, “ἐν χρήσει νομίσματος” Arr.Epict.1.7.6.
IV. ἡ διαπίπτουσα or ὁ τόπος ὁ διαπίπτων, Tophet, LXXJe.19.12,13.
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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