The corpus record

διακινδῡν-εύω

diakinduneuo

run all risks, make a desperate attempt

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Where it lives

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 1 · 18.08/10k
Against Alcibiades 2 1 · 16.64/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 4 · 6.95/10k
Busiris 1 · 3.64/10k
Panegyricus 3 · 2.79/10k
Funeral Oration 1 · 2.46/10k
Apollodorus Against Polycles 1 · 2.18/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Archidamus 1 · 1.63/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διακινδῡν-εύω · diakindyn-euō — LSJ

run all risks, make a desperate attempt, run the risk, desperate

run all risks, make a desperate attempt, abs., ἀλόγως δ. Th. 8.27; δ. τῷ σώματι Antipho 5.63; ἐς τὰς Ἐπιπολάς Th. 7.47; πρὸς ὀλίγας [ναῦς] Id. 1.142: c. inf., Id. 7.1; δ. ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἑλλάδος Lys. 2.20; πρὸ βασιλέως X. Cyr. 8.8.4; περὶ τῶν ὅλων D. Ep. 3.12 (simply, run the risk, c. acc. et inf., δ. ἢ χρηστὸν [τὸ σῶμα] γενέσθαι ἢ πονηρόν Pl. Prt. 313a):—Pass., διακεκινδυνευμένα φάρμακα desperate remedies, Isoc. 11.22.

In the wild

διακινδύνευε · diakindyneue Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles 28 (DIORISIS sentence 62)
διακινδυνεύειν · diakindyneuein Isocrates, Archidamus 94 (DIORISIS sentence 190)
διακεκινδυνευμένοις · diakekindyneumenois Isocrates, Busiris 22 (DIORISIS sentence 41)
διακινδυνεύειν · diakindyneuein Isocrates, Panegyricus 145 (DIORISIS sentence 254)
διακινδυνεύειν · diakindyneuein Isocrates, Panegyricus 36 (DIORISIS sentence 63)
διακινδυνεύσασα · diakindyneusasa Isocrates, Panegyricus 67 (DIORISIS sentence 107)

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