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διακρῑβ-όω

diakriboo

portray exactly

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

διακρῑβ-όω · diakrib-oō — LSJ

portray exactly

portray exactly, Ἔρωτα APl. 16.204 (Praxiteles).

2 examine, discuss minutely, with precision, the subject has been examined minutely, to be brought to exactness, perfection, accomplished

examine or discuss minutely or with precision, τὰς τάξεις X. Cyr. 2.1.27; τὸν ὅρον Arist. SE 169b15, cf. EN 1178a23:—Med., Pl. Tht. 184d; περί τινος Isoc. 4.18:—Pass., διηκρίβωται the subject has been examined minutely, Arist. Rh. 1366a21, cf. Phld. Herc. 862.13; to be brought to exactness or perfection, Arist. EN 1112b6, etc.; διηκριβωμένοι accomplished persons, Pl. Lg. 965a; διηκρ. ἑρμηνεία Aristox. Harm. p.16M.; διηκρ. τέχναι Ath. 12.511d.

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διακριβοῦσιν · diakribousin Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
διηκρίβωται · diēkribōtai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1112b (DIORISIS sentence 732)
διακριβῶσαι · diakribōsai Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1178a (DIORISIS sentence 3733)
διηκρίβωται · diēkribōtai Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
διακριβοῦσθαι · diakribousthai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8406)
διηκριβωμένους · diēkribōmenous Plato, Laws 965

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