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διαγωγή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαγωγή

Structure: διαγωγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: dia/gw II

Sense

  1. a passing of life, a way or course of life, pastimes

Declension

First 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

  • "οὐδὲ τὸν Ἀγησιλάου τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλέωσ, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον, εἰ ἔτυχεν, τὸν Ἀνάνιοσ οὕτωσ ἀοράτου κατὰ δόξαν ὄντοσ, οὐδὲ τὸν τῶν ἡμιθέων τῶν ἐπὶ Τροίασ, ἀλλὰ πολλῷ μᾶλλον τῶν νῦν καὶ τοῦτ’ εἰκότωσ, ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀκατάσκευοσ καὶ καθάπερ ἀνεύρετοσ ἦν, οὔτ’ ἐπιμιξίασ οὔσησ οὔτε τῶν τεχνῶν διηκριβωμένων, ὁ δὲ πᾶσιν ἐξηρτυμένοσ πρὸσ ῥᾳστώνην καὶ πρὸσ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἄλλασ διαγωγάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 3 2:5)
  • τούτου μὲν δὴ πρώτου χάριν, ὥσπερ ἔφην, ἐκεῖνα ἠναγκάσθην προειπεῖν, ἔπειτα, ἵνα μοι μὴ μονόκωλοσ ᾖ μηδὲ αὐστηρὸσ ὁ λόγοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔχῃ τινὰσ εὐπαιδεύτουσ διαγωγάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 42 1:4)
  • οὔτε γὰρ πράξεισ οὔτ’ ἐλπίδασ οὔτ’ ἀποδημίασ οὔτε διαγωγὰσ αἱ νόσοι τοσαύτασ ὅσασ ἡδονὰσ· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 8 1:2)
  • οὓτωσ ἀνοιστέον ἐν ταῖσ ἀρρωστίαισ πρὸσ αὑτοὺσ ὡσ διὰ ψυχροποσίαν ἢ λουτρὸν ἄκαιρον ἢ συμπεριφορὰν πολλὰσ μὲν αὑτῶν διεφθείραμεν ἡδονάσ, καλὰσ δὲ πράξεισ ἐπιτερπεῖσ τε διαγωγὰσ ἀπωλέσαμεν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 9 4:1)
  • εὐφυὴσ γὰρ ὢν καὶ θεωρητικὸσ οὐκ εἰσ παιδιὰσ οὐδ’ εἰσ διαγωγὰσ ἀχρήστουσ ἔτρεψε τὸ φιλότεχνον, ὥσπερ ἄλλοι βασιλεῖσ αὐλοῦντεσ καὶ ζωγραφοῦντεσ καὶ τορεύοντεσ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 20 1:2)

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

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