διά-λῠσις (dialusis)

Where it lives

Against Phaenippus 3 · 13.52/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 1 · 5.47/10k
Against Spudias 1 · 5.16/10k
Against Callicles 1 · 4.77/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
To Nicocles 1 · 3.32/10k
Meditations 9 · 3.1/10k
Athenian Constitution 4 · 2.46/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Esdras II 1 · 0.84/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

διά-λῠσις · dia-lysis — LSJ

separating, parting, dissolution, break, disbanding, breaking up, the time of, breaking up, broke off, liquidation, divorce, dissolution, resolution, dissolution

separating, parting, δ. τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ σώματος Pl. Grg. 524b; δ. τοῦ σώματος its dissolution, Id. Phd. 88b, cf. Democr. 297; τὴν τῶν γεφυρῶν οὐ δ. the failure to break the bridges, Th. 1.137; disbanding of troops, X. Cyr. 6.1.3; breaking up of an assembly, opp. συλλογή, Pl. Lg. 758d; δ. ἀγορῆς the time of its breaking up, Hdt. 3.104; τὴν δ. ἐποιήσαντο broke off the action, Th. 1.51; χρεῶν δ. liquidation of debts, Pl. Lg. 684d, cf. POxy. 104.20 (i A. D.), etc.; δ. γάμου divorce, Plu. Sull. 35,

2 ending, cessation, cessation of hostilities, settlement, compromise, settlement

ending, cessation, κακῶν E. Ph. 435; πολέμου Th. 4.19, v.l. in Isoc. 6.51: abs., cessation of hostilities, Com.Adesp. 21.23 D.; settlement, compromise, IG 12(2).6.20 (Mytilene, iv B.C.), PAmh. 2.63.9 (iii A.D.), etc.: in pl., settlement of a dispute, ἠξίου δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἔμʼ αὑτῷ . . γίγνεσθαι τὰς διαλύσεις D. 21.119, cf. Phoenicid. 1.

3 solution

solution of a problem, A.D. Synt. 243.11; χρησμῶν Luc. Alex. 49.

4 refutation

refutation of an argument, S.E. P. 2.238.

5 resolution of a diphthong

resolution of a diphthong: ἐν διαλύσει, = διαλελυμένως, A.D. Pron. 29.13.

6 asyndeton

Rhet., asyndeton, Alex. Fig. 2.12, etc.

7 discharge

discharge, χορηγιῶν PRyl. 181.10 (iii A.D.); τῶν χρεωστουμένων POxy. 71.13 (iv A.D.).

8 deed of separation, divorce

deed of separation or divorce, PLips. 39.10 (iv A.D.); ἔγγραφος δ. PMasp. 153.16 (vi A.D.).

9 division

division of inheritance, Sammelb. 6000.22 (vi A.D.), etc.

In the wild

διαλύσεις · dialyseis Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..38 (DIORISIS sentence 443)
διαλύσεις · dialyseis Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..38 (DIORISIS sentence 446)
διαλύσεις · dialyseis Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..39 (DIORISIS sentence 448)
διαλύσεων · dialyseōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..40 (DIORISIS sentence 463)
διάλυσις · dialysis Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 11)
διάλυσις · dialysis Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7

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Where it came from

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