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διαρρέω ,
A.flow through, “διὰ μέσου” Hdt.7.108; “δ. μέσου αὐτοῦ” Ael. VH3.1: c. acc., “τὴν χώραν” Isoc.11.14; δ. εἰς τὴν θάλατταν, of rivers, Arist.HA569a20:—Pass., Epicur.Ep.2p.47U.; to be drenched, “ἱδρῶτι” Hld.10.13; of a country, “ποταμοῖς διαρρεῖσθαι” Plu.2.951f: also intr. in Act., “τὸ ἔδαφος διαρρέον καὶ τὴν ἰκμάδα παρέχον” Thphr.Ign. 41.
2. slip through, “τῶν χειρῶν” Luc.Anach.28; “διὰ τῶν δακτύλων” Id.DMort.17.1.
3. of a vessel, leak, ib.10.1.
4. of a report, fade away, die away, Plu.Aem.24.
5. χείλη διερρυηκότα gaping lips, Ar.Nu.873.
II. fall away like water, die or waste away, “χάρις διαρρεῖ” S.Aj.1267; of the moon, wane, “πάλιν διαρρεῖ κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται” Id.Fr.871.8; to be 'boiled to rags', Ar.V.1156; of money, “μὴ λαθεῖν διαρρυὲν τἀργύριον” D.37.54; of soldiers, “δ. ἐκ τῆς στρατοπεδείας” Plb.1.74.10; “δ. κατὰ πόλεις” Plu.Sull.27, etc.; also δ. ὑπὸ πλούτου καὶ μαλακίας, Lat. diffluere luxuria, Id.2.32f, cf. Ages.14, Luc.DMort.11.4, etc.; δ. τῷ βίῳ lead a loose life, Ael.VH9.24.
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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