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διερῶ

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διερῶ διείρηκα

Structure:

Etym.: dierw= serving as fut., diei/rhka as perf., of diagoreu/w

Sense

  1. to say fully, distinctly, expressly

Examples

  • ἁγνείασ ἐπὶ ταῖσ θυσίαισ διείρηκεν ὁ νόμοσ ἀπὸ κήδουσ ἀπὸ λέχουσ ἀπὸ κοινωνίασ τῆσ πρὸσ γυναῖκα καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 156:1)
  • Νόμοσ οὗτοσ σαφῶσ ὁ νόμοσ διείρηκεν ὧν εἶναι δίκασ προσήκει μεταλλικάσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 60:4)
  • ὁρᾶθ’ ὡσ σαφῶσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, μηδέν’ εἶναι τριηραρχίασ ἀτελῆ διείρηκεν ὁ νόμοσ πλὴν τῶν ἐννέ’ ἀρχόντων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 40:1)
  • τηνικαῦτα δ’ ἥκειν δέδωκεν ἔστιν ὃν τρόπον, οὐχ ὃν ἂν τύχῃ, ἀλλὰ καὶ θῦσαι καὶ καθαρθῆναι καὶ ἄλλ’ ἄττα διείρηκεν ἃ χρὴ ποιῆσαι, ὀρθῶσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντα ταῦτα λέγων ὁ νόμοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 102:3)

Synonyms

  1. to say fully

Related

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

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