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διέχω :
I. trans., keep apart or separate, ποταμὸς δ. τὰ ῥέεθραHdt.9.51; δ. τὴν φάλαγγα leave gaps in it, Arr.An.1.1.10 (so abs., διασχεῖν make way for a person, Plu. TG18); “δ. τοὺς μαχομένουςId.Caes.20; δ. τὰς χεῖρας spread them out, esp. for the purpose of parting combatants, Plb.4.52.1; “τὰς χεῖρας ἐν μέσῳ δ.Plu.Cim.19; “διασχοῦσα τὰς χεῖραςId.Ant.20: c. gen., “τῆς ἐσθῆτος διασχώνId.Aem. 31.
2. hold fast,κόντουςPaus.10.25.2.
3. of Time, παιδὸς δὲ βλάστας οὐ διέσχον ἡμέραι τρεῖς not three days parted the birth (sc. from what followed), S.OT717.
4. of the earth, open,σεισμῷPhilostr.Her.1.2; of a river, broaden out, Arr.An.6.5.3.
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.42
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.122
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.51
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.253
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.520
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.100
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.25.2
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 717
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.81
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.22
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.95
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.10.4
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.4.20
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.1.21
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.52.1
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 31
    • Plutarch, Cimon, 19
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 20
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 20
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 1.1.10
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 6.5.3
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