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διαχέω , fut. -χεῶ, later
A.“-χύσω” Gp.7.8.4: aor. -έχεα, Ep. -έχευα (the only tense used by Hom.):—pour different ways, scatter, “τὸν χοῦν” Hdt.2.150.
b. in Hom., cut up a victim into joints, “αῖψ᾽ ἄρα μιν διέχευαν” Od.3.456, cf. Il.7.316, al.; “χαλκὸς ἔγκατα διέχευεν” Theoc.22.203.
2. disperse, “τὰ συγκεκριμένα” Pl.Phlb.46e; “ἡ θερμότης δ. τὸ ὑγρόν” Arist.Pr.869a15; melt, fuse, “χαλκόν” Paus.9.41.1; liquefy, opp. πηγνύναι, Pl.Ti.46d; “νῆα . . διέχευαν ἄελλαι” A.R.3.320; δ. ἀποστήματα disperse abscesses, Thphr.Od.59(61); δ. ἴχνη to destroy the scent, X.Cyn.5.3:—Pass., ib.8.1:—also Med., dissolve, Nic. Al.373.
3. metaph., confound, “τὰ βεβουλευμένα” Hdt.8.57.
4. put in a good humour, “τινὰ ὁμιλίαις καὶ λόγοις” Plu.2.74d, cf. Philostr. VS2.10.1, Hermog.Id.2.9.
II. more freq. in Pass., to be poured from one vessel into another, Hdt.6.119.
2. run through, spread, Th.2.75,76, Arist.Fr.243.
3. to be dissolved, liquefied, X.Cyn. 8.1, Arist.Pr.890b17, etc.; of a corpse, Hdt.3.16; disperse, of soldiers, X.HG7.4.34; of humours, Hp.Epid.4.45.
4. metaph., to be or become diffused or relaxed, εὐφραινόμενον -χεῖται, opp. λυπούμενον συσπειρᾶται, Pl.Smp.206d; “ὑπὸ μέθης διακεχυμένος” Id.Lg.775c, cf. Plb.8.27.4; [“αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι] οὐ διαχέονται” Epicur.Sent.30; “μαλακὸν καὶ διακεχυμένον βλέπειν” Arist.Phgn.813a26; “φαιδρὸν καὶ δ. πρόσωπον” Plu.Alex.19; τῆς ψυχῆς τὸ παθητικὸν διακεχυμένον ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου Zeno ap.eund.2.82f, cf. Tryph. Trop.p.205S.
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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