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διαζάω , Ion. δι-ζώω , inf. διαζῆν,
A.live through, pass, “ὀρθῶς τὸν βίον” E. IA923; “τὸ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν” Pl.R.561c, etc.: abs., “καλῶς δ.” X.HG7.1.8.
2. c. part., live by doing so and so, ποιηφαγέοντες διέζωον they supported life by . ., Hdt.3.25; δ. ἀπό τινος live off or by a thing, S. Ph.535, Ar.Av.1434, etc.; “ἔκ τινος” Stoic.3.187; “πῶς οὖν διέζης ἢ πόθεν μηδὲν ποιῶν;” Ar.Pl.906; δ. νομῇ of pastoral life, Pl.Lg.679a.
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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