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διασῴζω ,
A.preserve through a danger, of persons, “Ἀπόλλωνα δ. κατακρύψασα” Hdt.2.156; “δ. πόλιν” E.Ph.783; “δ. τινὰ ἐκ κινδύνων” Isoc. 1.23:—Med., save for oneself, “τὰ πλείστου ἄξια” X.Cyr.4.2.28:—Pass., Pl.Ti.22d; come safe through, “τοὺς διασωθέντας” Id.R.540a, cf. 1 Ep.Pet.3.20, etc.; διασῴζεσθαι ἐς . . or πρός . . to come safe to a place, Th.4.113, X.An.5.4.5, etc.; recover from illness, Id.Mem.2.10.2.
II. of things, preserve, maintain, “ἀνδρὶ τἀμὰ δ. λέχη . .” E.Hel. 65; keep in memory, X.Mem.3.5.22; “δ. πίστιν τινί” Id.HG7.2.17; “δ. τὸν πρῶτον λόγον” Pl.R.395b, cf. Arist.Ph.189b1; “τὰ παλαιά” Isoc.10.63:—Med., preserve for oneself, retain, εὐδαιμονίαν, εὐτυχίαν, Th.3.39, 5.16; “δόξαν” Lys.2.69; “τὴν τῶν Μήδων μαλακίαν” X.Cyr.8.8.15.
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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