διαδέχομαι (diadechomai)

Where it lives

Apollodorus Against Polycles 8 · 17.46/10k
On The Refusal Of A Pension 1 · 7.03/10k
Against Phaenippus 1 · 4.51/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Against Agoratus 1 · 2.09/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 20 · 1.87/10k
Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k
Paralipomenon I 2 · 1.5/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διαδέχομαι · diadechomai — LSJ

receive one from another, take up, speak next

receive one from another, δ. τὸν λόγον take up the word, i.e. speak next, Pl. R. 576b; λόγον παρά τινος D.H. Rh. 8.14: abs., διαδεξάμενοι ἔλεγον Hdt. 8.142; ἀποκρινόμενοι διαδέχεσθε Pl. Lg. 900c; δ. νόμους παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, τέχνην, Antipho 1.3, Lys. 24.6; τὴν διατριβήν, leadership of a school of philosophy, Phld. Acad.Ind. p.58 M.

2 succeed to

δ. βασιλείαν succeed to the kingdom, Plb. 2.4.7; ἀρχὴν παρά τινος Id. 9.28.8; τὴν ναῦν δ. τινί, of a trierarch (cf. διαδοχή I), D. 50.38; πλοῦτον παρά τινος Luc. DMort. 21[11].3.

II succeed, take, place, relieve, act for, represent

διαδέχεσθαί τινι succeed one, take his place, relieve him on guard, etc., Pl. Lg. 758b, X. Cyr. 8.6.18: later, δ. τινά Arist. Pol. 1299b4, Plb. 28.3.6; δ. τὰ κατὰ τὴν στρατηγίαν act for the στρατηγός, BGU 18.3 (ii A. D.), etc.; τοὺς προφήτας στολισταὶ δ. represent, PGnom. 193.

b appoint a successor to, was relieved of

appoint a successor to, τινά Eun. Hist. p.231 D.:—Pass., διεδέχθη τῆς στρατηγίας was relieved of his command, Id. p.243 D.

2 relieve one another, with fresh, closing in from both sides, succeed, the successors, in turns, by turns

abs., relieve one another, τοῖς ἵπποις with fresh horses, X. An. 1.5.2 (wrongly expld. as closing in from both sides by Demetr. Eloc. 93); succeed, οἱ διαδεχόμενοι στρατηγοί Lys. 13.62, cf. Arist. Pol. 1293a29; οἱ διαδεξάμενοι the successors (of Alexander), Plb. 9.34.11; οἱ τὰ Πύρρου δ. App. Ill. 7: pf. part. Pass., νὺξ εἰσάγει καὶ νὺξ ἀπωθεῖ διαδεδεγμένη in turns, by turns, S. Tr. 30; διαδεξάμενοι Act.Ap. 7.45; οἱ διαδεχόμενοι καιροί Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 7.8.3.

III supersede

supersede, τὸν ὕπατον D.S. 24.1.

In the wild

διαδεξαμένων · diadexamenōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..16 (DIORISIS sentence 207)
διεδέχοντο · diedechonto Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..28 (DIORISIS sentence 357)
διαδέχεσθαι · diadechesthai Aristotle, Politics 1293a (DIORISIS sentence 1541)
διαδεξόμενοι · diadexomenoi Aristotle, Politics 1299b (DIORISIS sentence 1741)
διάδεξαι · diadexai Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 21 (DIORISIS sentence 65)
διαδέξασθαι · diadexasthai Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles 29 (DIORISIS sentence 65)

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