The corpus record

διαλῡμαίνομαι

dialumainomai

maltreat shamefully

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Where it lives

Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Panegyricus 1 · 0.93/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

διαλῡμαίνομαι · dialymainomai — LSJ

maltreat shamefully

maltreat shamefully, τινά Hdt. 9.112; Ἑλλάδα δ. E. l.c.; ἵμερός με δ. Ar. Ra. 59, etc.

2 cheat grossly

cheat grossly, δ. τινὰ ταῖς κοτύλαις Id. Pl. 436.

3 falsify, corrupt

falsify, corrupt, τὸ νόμισμα Id. Th. 348; of poetry, Id. Ra. 1062.

4 ruin, spoil

ruin, spoil, τὰ πολλὰ Plu. Ant. 24: c. dat., Jul. Or. 2.54b.

Pass., Orib. 7.20.5: pf. part. διαλελυμασμένος in Hdt. 9.112: aor. διελυμάνθην E. Hipp. 1349 (lyr.).

In the wild

διελυμήνω · dielymēnō Aristophanes, Frogs 1062
διαλυμαίνεται · dialymainetai Aristophanes, Frogs 59
διαλυμαίνεται · dialymainetai Aristophanes, Plutus 435 (DIORISIS sentence 369)
διαλυμαίνεται · dialymainetai Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 302)
διελυμήνατο · dielymēnato Euripides, Orestes 1515 (DIORISIS sentence 1010)
διαλυμαίνεται · dialymainetai Herodotus, Histories 9.112.1 (DIORISIS sentence 10067)

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Where it came from

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