Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διανταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διανταῖος διανταῖη διανταῖον

Structure: διανται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. extending throughout, right through, a, thrust, that strikes home

Examples

  • τοῦτο γὰρ λάχοσ διανταία Μοῖρ’ ἐπέκλωσεν ἐμπέδωσ ἔχειν, θνατῶν τοῖσιν αὐτουργίαι ξυμπέσωσιν μάταιοι, τοῖσ ὁμαρτεῖν, ὄφρ’ ἂν γᾶν ὑπέλθῃ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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