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διαχράομαι , fut. -ήσομαι, Dor. 3sg.
A.“διαχρησεῖται” Theoc.15.54.
I. Dep., c. dat. rei, use constantly or habitually, chiefly in Hdt., “τῇ αὐτῇ γλώσσῃ” 1.58; “τῷ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ” 2.127; “οὐκ οἴνῳ διαχρέωνται” 1.71, cf. 2.77; “ἐσθῆτι φοινηκηΐῃ” 4.43; τῇ ἀληθείῃ δ. speak the truth, 3.72; “οἰμωγῇ ἀφθόνῳ” 3.66, cf. 6.58; “ἀρετῇ” 7.102; “ἀγνωμοσύνῃ” 6.10; “ἀναιδείῃ τε καὶ ἀβουλίῃ” 7.210; “νόμοις τοῖς προτέροισιν” Ar.Ec.609; λιμῷ ὅσαπερ ὄψῳ δ. use hunger as a sauce, X.Cyr.1.5.12.
b. of passive states, meet with, suffer under, συμφορῇ μεγάλῃ, τοιούτῳ μόρῳ, Hdt. 3.117, 1.167; “αὐχμῷ δ.” Id.2.13.
2. treat, handle, “ἀνομώτατα” Str. 6.1.8: c. acc., destroy, kill, Hdt.1.24, 110, Antipho1.23, Th.3.36, etc.
II. Pass., to be lent out to different persons, v. διακίχρημι.
2. to be killed, D.L.1.102.
III. later in Act., διαχράω reveal by oracle, τελετήν Orac. ap. Phleg.Olymp.Fr.1.
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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    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 23
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    • Strabo, Geography, 6.1.8
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