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διακοσμέω

diakosmeo

divide and marshal, muster, array

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διακοσμ-έω · diakosm-eō — LSJ

divide and marshal, muster, array

divide and marshal, muster, array, ὣς τοὺς ἡγεμόνες διεκόσμεον Il. 2.476; πομπήν Th. 1.20:—Pass., εἴ περ . . ἐς δεκάδας διακοσμηθεῖμεν Ἀχαιοί Il. 2.126; διὰ τρίχα κοσμηθέντες ib. 655.

2 order, regulate, got, set in order

order, regulate, Anaxag. 12, Hdt. 1.100, Th. 2.100, Pl. Lg. 864a, al., etc.:—Med., πᾶν μέγαρον διεκοσμήσαντο got it all set in order, Od. 22.457; δ. τὸ σῶμα Hp. Vict. 1.9.

3 re-establish the world-order

Stoic t. t., re-establish the world-order after ἐκπύρωσις, εἶτʼ αὖθις πάλιν -εῖσθαι [τὸν κόσμον] Zeno Stoic. 1.27.

II adorn variously

adorn variously, τινί τι Crobyl. 10:—Pass., στιγμαῖς Philum. Ven. 21.1.

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