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διακελ-εύομαι

diakeleuomai

exhort, give orders, direct

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Where it lives

On the Accession of Alexander 5 · 28.01/10k
Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 1 · 4.96/10k
Epistles 5 · 2.95/10k
Against Callimachus 1 · 2.82/10k
Evagoras 1 · 2.18/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Archidamus 1 · 1.63/10k
Laches 1 · 1.3/10k
Theaetetus 2 · 0.89/10k
Laws 9 · 0.87/10k
Anabasis 4 · 0.71/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διακελ-εύομαι · diakel-euomai — LSJ

exhort, give orders, direct

exhort, give orders, direct, δ. τινὶ εἶναι, ποιεῖν, etc., Hdt. 1.36, Lys. 25.28, etc.; οὐ τοῦτό σοι διεκελευόμην, c. inf., Pl. Euthphr. 6d; so δ. ὅπως . . Id. R. 549e; also δ. τινί τι (sc. ποιεῖν) Id. Sph. 218a, etc.: abs., Id. Tht. 148e, etc.

2 encourage one another, cheer, on

encourage one another, Hdt. 1.1, 3.77; freq. with ἀλλήλοις added, cheer one another on, X. An. 4.8.3; δ. ἑαυτῷ Id. Cyr. 1.4.13; δ. τοῖς θέουσι Pl. Phd. 61a.

3 admonish, inform

admonish, inform, τινὶ περί τινος Isoc. 9.78.—The Act. only in Suid.

In the wild

διακελεύονται · diakeleuontai Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 12 (DIORISIS sentence 26)
διακελευομένων · diakeleuomenōn Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1)
διακελευόμενοι · diakeleuomenoi Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 24 (DIORISIS sentence 59)
διακελεύομαι · diakeleuomai Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 30 (DIORISIS sentence 72)
διακελεύεσθαί · diakeleuesthai Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 5 (DIORISIS sentence 8)
διακελευσαμένους · diakeleusamenous Herodotus, Histories 1.1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 9)

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