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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

  • ε διειληφότεσ οὖν τόδε τὸ ἔθνοσ μονώτατον ἐν ἀντιπαραγωγῇ παντὶ διαπαντὸσ ἀνθρώπῳ κείμενον, διαγωγὴν νόμων ξενίζουσαν παραλλάσσον καὶ δυσνοοῦν τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ πράγμασι τὰ χείριστα συντελοῦν κακὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ μὴ τὴν βασιλείαν εὐσταθείασ τυγχάνειν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:18)
  • ἔστι δὲ ὁ ἐλευθέριοσ καὶ περὶ ἐσθῆτα καθαρὸσ καὶ περὶ οἴκησιν, καὶ κατασκευαστικὸσ τῶν περιττῶν καὶ καλῶν καὶ διαγωγὴν ἐχόντων ἡδεῖαν ἄνευ τοῦ λυσιτελοῦντοσ, καὶ θρεπτικὸσ τῶν ζῴων τῶν ἴδιον ἐχόντων τι ἢ θαυμαστόν. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 24:2)
  • οὐκ ἂν εἴποι δέ τισ ὡσ Δημήτριον ἐν εὐπαθείαισ καὶ συνουσίαισ ὄντα πράξεων καιρὸσ ἐξέφυγεν, ἀλλὰ τῇ περιουσίᾳ τῆσ σχολῆσ ἐπεισῆγε τὰσ ἡδονάσ, καὶ τὴν Λάμιαν ὥσπερ τὴν μυθικὴν ἀτεχνῶσ παίζων καὶ νυστάζων ἐποιεῖτο διαγωγήν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demetrius and Antony, chapter 3 1:2)
  • "κατεσκεύαστο δ’ αὐτῆσ κατὰ μὲν μέσον τὸ κύτοσ τὰ συμπόσια καὶ οἱ κοιτῶνεσ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τὰ πρὸσ τὴν διαγωγὴν χρηστήρια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3719)
  • ἐκ τούτου τὴν μὲν στρατιὰν πρὸσ ἀνάπαυσιν, αὑτὸν δὲ πρὸσ θέαν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἔτρεψε καὶ διαγωγὴν ἔνδοξον ἅμα καὶ φιλάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 28 1:1)

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

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