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διήκω , fut.
A.“-ξω” Gal.Anim.Pass.1:—extend or reach from one place to another, ἐκ . . εἰς or ἐπί . . , Hdt.2.106, 6.31; μέχρι . . Id.4.185; ἄχρις . . Ti. Locr.101a; δ. ἔς τε τὸ ἔσω . . καὶ ἐς τὸ ἔξω, i.e. right through, Th.3.21; ἀπό . . πρός . . Luc.VH1.19; “διὰ πάντων” Corn.ND 11; κατά, περί τι, Iamb.Comm.Math.4, 15.
II. c. acc., pervade, “πόλιν διήκει . . βάξις” A.Ag.476 (lyr.), cf. Th.900 (lyr.); τὸ σὸν ὄνομα δ. πάντας, volitat per ora, S.OC306 (but in an inverted constr. “σῶφρον γὰρ ὄμμα τοὐμὸν Ἑλλήνων λόγος πολὺς διήκει” E.Hyps.Fr.34(60).45); “διὰ πάντων διήκουσα δύναμις” Arist.Mu.396b29; κατὰ στενὸν δ. ib.393b5; αἱ κοιναὶ καὶ διήκουσαι κακίαι peruading faults, Phld.Sign.28: c. gen., “φρόνημα δ. λόγου” Philostr.VS1.17.3; ἡδονὴ δ. [ποιημάτων] Id.Her.18.1.
2. pass over, “ἡλίου κύκλος μέσον πόρον διῆκε” A.Pers. 505.
3. discuss in detail, Gal. l.c.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 476
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 505
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 900
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.185
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.31
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.106
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 306
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.21
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.17.3
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