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διαφαγεῖν

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαφαγεῖν

Structure:

Etym.: aor2 inf. of diesqi/w

Sense

  1. to eat through

Conjugation

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ τῷ παλαίειν πιεζούμενοσ, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ πεσεῖν ἀναγαγὼν πρὸσ τὸ στόμα τὰ ἅμματα τοῦ πιεζοῦντοσ, οἱο͂σ ἦν διαφαγεῖν τὰσ χεῖρασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 2 2:1)
  • κεναὶ δ’ ἔξωθεν προσδρομαὶ καὶ ἀλαλαγμοὶ Μακεδόνων, οὐ μηχανῆσ τινοσ οὐκ ὀργάνων παρόντων, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ σπουδῆσ ξίφεσι τυπτόντων τὰ τείχη καὶ χερσὶ γυμναῖσ περιρρῆξαι καὶ μονονοὺ διαφαγεῖν βιαζομένων. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 13 12:1)
  • κεναὶ δ’ ἔξωθεν προσδρομαὶ καὶ ἀλαλαγμοὶ Μακεδόνων, οὐ μηχανῆσ τινοσ οὐκ ὀργάνων παρόντων, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ σπουδῆσ ξίφεσι τυπτόντων τὰ τείχη καὶ χερσὶ γυμναῖσ παραρρῆξαι καὶ μονονοὺ διαφαγεῖν βιαζομένων. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 12 8:1)
  • νύκτωρ γὰρ πολὺ πλῆθοσ ἀρουραίων μυῶν ἐξανθῆσαν διαφαγεῖν ὅσα σκύτινα τῶν τε ὅπλων καὶ τῶν χρηστηρίων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 79:6)
  • μυῶν γὰρ πλῆθόσ φησι μιᾷ νυκτὶ τὰ τόξα καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ὅπλα διαφαγεῖν τῶν Ἀσσυρίων, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μὴ ἔχοντα τόξα τὸν βασιλέα τὴν στρατιὰν ἀπάγειν ἀπὸ τοῦ Πηλουσίου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 10 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. to eat through

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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