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διατείνω ,
A.stretch to the uttermost, “δ. τὸ τόξον” Hdt.3.35; keep stretched out, “τὴν χεῖρα” Hp.Fract.8; “δ. τὰς χεῖρας ἐπί τι” X.Cyr.1.3.4; “ἀράχνιον δ. πρὸς τὰ πέρατα” Arist.HA623a9; “τινὰ ὑπὲρ λεχέων” AP5.54 (Diosc.):—Pass., extend, “μία ἰδέα πάντῃ διατεταμένη” Pl.Sph. 253d.
II. intr., extend, Diog.Apoll.6; “διὰ παντὸς τοῦ βίου” Arist.EN 1172a23; “καθ᾽ ἅπαν τὸ σῶμα” Id.HA503b21; κατὰ τὸ συνεχὲς ἕως εἰς . . Plb.3.37.9; to continue, “γένος διέτεινε λαμπρόν” Plu.Marc.30.
2. δ. εἰς, ποτί τι, extend or relate to, concern, SIG569.11,38 (Halasarna, iii B. C.), cf. Plb.8.29.6; “πρὸς τὰ ὅλα” Id.9.5.4.
3. reach, arrive at, extend as far as, “πρός . .” Epicur.Ep.1p.13U., Plb.5.86.4, D.S.12.70, etc.; live until the time of, “εἴς τινα” Plu.Cat.Ma.15.
B. Med. and Pass., exert oneself, “τί οὖν . . διετεινάμην οὑτωσὶ σφοδρῶς;” D.18.142; “διατεινάμενος φεύγειν” at full speed, X.Mem.4.2.23; “θεῖν διατεταμένους” Pl.R.474a; ἰέναι ib.501c; πὺξ διατεινάμ<*>ενος Theoc. 22.67; strain, exert the voice, Arist.Pol.1336a39; διατείνεσθαι πρός τι exert oneself for a purpose, X.Mem.3.7.9; διετείναντο αὐτὸν μὴ εἰσελθεῖν prevented him from going in, Antipho 5.46; “δ. τὰ κάλλιστα πράττειν” Arist.EN1169a9.
2. maintain earnestly, contend, δ. ὡς . . maintain stoutly that . ., Pl.Sph.247c, Thphr.HP3.18.7, CP4.6.1, etc.
b. oppose, opp. συναποφήνασθαι, Gal.4.759; πρός τινα ib. 773.
II. in strict sense of Med., stretch oneself, Anaxan dr.41.67.
2. to stretch out for oneself or what is one's own, “δ. τὸ τόξον” Hdt.4.9; τὰ βέλεα ὡς ἀπήσοντες to have their lances poised as if they were about to throw, Id.9.18; “διατεινάμενοι οἱ μὲν τὰ παλτὰ οἱ δὲ τὰ τόξα” X.Cyr.1.4.23; “διατεταμένοι τὰς μάστιγας” Plb.15.28.2.
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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