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διάφευξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάφευξις διάφευξεως

Structure: διαφευξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diafeu/gw

Sense

  1. an escaping, means of escape

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἡττηθεὶσ γὰρ μάχαισ μεγάλαισ ἐπεχείρησε μὲν ἀναζευγνύναι νυκτὸσ, ἐκλιπὼν τὸ στρατόπεδον αἰσθομένων δὲ τῶν Νομαντίνων καὶ τὸ μὲν στρατόπεδον εὐθὺσ λαβόντων, τοῖσ δὲ ἀνθρώποισ ἐπιπεσόντων φεύγουσι καὶ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ φονευόντων, τὸ δὲ πᾶν ἐγκυκλουμένων στράτευμα καὶ συνωθούντων εἰσ τόπουσ χαλεποὺσ καὶ διάφευξιν οὐκ ἔχοντασ, ἀπογνοὺσ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ βιάζεσθαι σωτηρίαν ὁ Μαγκῖνοσ ἐπεκηρυκεύετο περὶ σπονδῶν καὶ διαλύσεων πρὸσ αὐτούσ· (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 5 2:1)
  • παλαισμάτων τὰ πλεῖστα διακρουόμενα τὰσ ἀπ’ ἀγκίστρου βολὰσ ἐπὶ βίασ ἐτράπησαν, καθάπερ οἱ Πέρσαι σαγηνεύοντεσ, ὡσ τοῖσ ἐνσχεθεῖσιν οὐδεμίαν ἐκ λογισμοῦ καὶ σοφίασ διάφευξιν οὖσαν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 26 1:1)
  • προϊόντοσ δὲ χρόνου καὶ ἐπὶ πλέον ὁμοίωσ ἐξηγριώθησαν διάφευξίσ τε οὐκ ἦν τοῖσ πᾶσιν ἐμπεσεῖν, τὰ μὲν κέρδουσ ἐλπίδι, τὰ δὲ καὶ συνηθείᾳ τοῦ φονεύειν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 338:1)

Synonyms

  1. an escaping

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

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