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διαβολ-ή , ἡ, (διαβάλλω v)
A.false accusation, slander, Epich.148; “ἐπὶ διαβολῇ εἰπεῖν” Hdt.3.66,73; “δ. λόγου” Th.8.91; διαβολὰς ἐνδέχεσθαι, προσίεσθαι, to give ear to them, Hdt.3.80, 6.123; διαβολὰς ἔχειν ὡς . . to have it slanderously said that . ., Isoc.8.125; “ὀνείδους καὶ δ. τυγχάνειν” Lys.25.6; ἐνδ. καθεστηκέναι ibid.; “διαλύσειντὴνδ.” Th.1.131: of charges not necessarily false or malicious, δ. ταῖς ἐμαῖς the accusations which I bring, E.Andr.1005, cf. Isoc.1.17; τὰ πρὸς διαβολὴν κυροῦντα tending to discredit, Plb.12.15.9, cf. 2.11.4; ἐμὴ δ. prejudice against me, Pl. Ap.19b; “δ. εἰς ἐμέ” And.1.30; “δ. καθ᾽ αὑτοῦ παρέσχεν” Plu. Them.4, cf. Phryn.Com.58; opp. δόξα, ill-repute, Men.723; δ. λῦσαι καὶ ποιῆσαι remove, create prejudice against an antagonist, Arist.Rh.1415a27; “δ. ἀπολύεσθαι” D.H.6.59.
II. (“διαβάλλω” 111) quarrel, enmity, “κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας δ.” Th.2.65; “ἡ πρὸς τὸ συγγενὲς δ.” Plu.2.479b; ἡ πρὸς θάνατον δ. fear, aversion from it, ib.110a: c. gen., δ. τοῦ πάθους ib.456b; εἰς διαβολήν τινος to withstand them, LXX Nu.22.32.
III. (“διαβάλλω” v111) legal obligation(?), Leg.Gort.9.35.
IV. fraud, Sch.Ar.Pl. 373.
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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