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διαπον-έω ,
A.work out with labour, elaborate, Isoc.5.85; cultivate, practise, “δ. γράμματα” Pl.Lg.810b, cf.R.535c; “τὰ πρὸς ἀγῶνας συντείνοντα” Arist.Pol.1341a11; exercise, “σώματα” X.Cyn.4.10; “σώματα δρόμοις καὶ πάλαις” Plu.Lyc.14; “αὑτὸν” Id.Dem.5; “στρατόν” App.Syr.43; “τοὺς νέους” Luc.Anach.18:—Med., διαπονεῖσθαι ἐπιτηδεύματα, τέχνας, Pl.Lg.846d, cf.Phdr.273e, X.Mem.2.1.33:—Pass., Pl.Criti.118c, Ep. 326d, etc.; “οἴκου . . οὐχ ὡς τὰ πρόσθ᾽ ἄριστα διαπονουμένου” managed, governed, A.Ag.19; διαπονηθῆναι τὴν μουσικήν to be taught it thoroughly, Plu.Per.4; “διαπεπονημένοι” veterans, D.S.11.7; “ὄψων . . περιττῶς διαπεπονημένων” Plu.Luc.40.
2. till or cultivate completely, “χώραν” Plb.4.45.7:—Pass., Hell.Oxy.12.5.
3. Pass., to be worn out, troubled, Act.Ap.4.2, 16.18, POxy.743.22 (i B.C.).
II. intr., to work hard, “δ. τῇ διανοίᾳ καὶ τῷ σώματι” Arist.Pol.1339a8, cf. Aristeas 92; “περὶ τὸ σῶμα” Arist.EN1178a26; “περὶ τὰ δημιουργικὰ τεχνήματα” Pl.Lg.846d: c. inf., “δ. πᾶν ἰσόρροπον ποιεῖν” X.Smp.2.17: —Med., “δ. τὸ πᾶσαν πίστιν λαβεῖν” Pl.Lg.966c; “δ. περὶ τὸν γόνον” Arist. GA759b1; οἱ διαπονούμενοι the hard-working, hardy, opp. ἄπονοι, X. Lac.5.8; to be hard-worked, of hounds, Arr.Cyn.32.1, al.
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 (20):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 19
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.7
    • Isocrates, To Philip, 85
    • Plato, Laws, 810b
    • Plato, Laws, 846d
    • Plato, Laws, 966c
    • Plato, Republic, 535c
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 273e
    • Plato, Critias, 118c
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.1.33
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 5.8
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 4.10
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 2.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.45.7
    • Plutarch, Demosthenes, 5
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 4
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 40
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 14
    • Lucian, Anacharsis, 18
    • Arrian, Cynegeticus, 32.1
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