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διατρέχω , aor.
A.“-έδρα^μον” Od.3.177, etc., also “-έθρεξα” Call.Lav. Pall.23, AP5.225 (Paul. Sil.):—run across or over, ἰχθυόεντα κέλευθα διέδραμον Od.l.c.; “τίς δ᾽ ἂν ἑκὼν τοσσόνδε διαδράμοι ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ;” 5.100; “ἀτρεμίζων καὶ μὴ διατρέχων” Antipho3.2.5; pass through, “διὰ τῆς πόλεως” Sammelb.3924.26 (i A.D.).
2. metaph., run through, “τὸν βίον” Pl.Lg.802a; “τὰ ἡδέα” X.Mem.2.1.31; δ. τὸν λόγον get to the end of it, Pl.Phdr.237a.
II. abs., run about, “δ. εἰς ἀγρόν” Ar.Pax 536, cf. Men.Epit.245; “διατρέχοντες ἀστέρες” Ar.Pax838; “νεφέλαι διέδραμον” Theoc.22.20: metaph., run through, spread, “ἐν τῷ σώματι διέδραμε γαργαλισμός” Hegesipp.Com.1.16; “δ. σάλος ἁπάντων καὶ νεωτερισμός” Plu.Alex.68; “θροῦς δ. τῆς ἐκκλησίας” Id.Pyrrh.13.
2. of Time, pass away, Hdn.2.6.3.
3. δ. εἰς . . come quite to . ., Hp.Int. 39; δ. μέχρι penetrate to . ., Plu.Pyrrh. 24; “πρὸς τὴν οἰκονομίαν” PGiss. 79ii4 (ii A.D.).
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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